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Believing that the most arid desert in the world is located in Antarctica
You have almost 2 million years, this harsh land - the driest desert in the world can not get a rain.
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Rare rainbow suddenly appeared in the desert
An amazing natural phenomenon has just happened in the Atacama desert.
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The phenomenon of snowfall is very strange in the Atacama desert
People living nearby said that this is the most dense snowfall during the last three decades in the world's most arid desert land.
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Underground oasis under the world's driest desert
Researchers from the Spanish Center for Astrophysics and the Catholic University of Northern Chile have discovered a 2-meter underground micro-oasis under the surface of…
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Desert and green planet invasion
Occupying up to 20% of the earth's surface but that is not enough, the desert is becoming more and more
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Atacama Desert - Mars on Earth
Arid and deserted with bacteria, land in the Atacama Desert (Chile), one of the oldest, driest deserts in the world, very similar to the gravel-red soil on Mars. This fi…
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Arid desert 'risen' covered with roses
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places in the world, suddenly turning into a sea of blooming flowers, filled with fresh pink.
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Close up of the world's largest telescope
The Southern European Observatory (ESO) has just released a number of photos of ALMA, the world's largest radio telescope.
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Astronomical observatory in Chile
Paranal Observatory was built in the Atacama Desert region, north of Chile, as one of the bases for astronomy research purposes.
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Chile started construction of the world's largest telescope
On June 19, the world's largest telescope construction project (E-ELT) in Chile was officially started after years of delay.
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The strongest installation of observatory observatory
Atacama (ALMA) is the most powerful and most expensive radio observatory ever built. ALMA is installed at a height of 5,000m in the Andes, Chile
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Chile radio telescope reaches maximum capacity
Huge radio telescope in Chile has been received
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The world's largest telescope operates
Launched in 2003, the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) project is one of the major scientific programs in the world; This is also the result of cooperation in many…
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Successfully created the world's largest virtual telescope
Scientists at the Paranal Astronomical Observatory in northern Chile said they have combined the signals of all four large optical telescopes at this station to create t…
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The largest radio telescope in operation
The European Astronomical Agency (ESO) announced the super-telescope telescope in the Atacama desert (ALMA) ready to go into operation.