South America's answer to the Sahara, the southern part of the Atacama Desert is known as the "Mar de Dunas" with a "sea of dunes" that spans 335 square kilometres. At 550 metres, El Medanoso is ...

Atacama Desert 4. Mojave Desert 5. Gobi Desert 6. Thar Desert 7. Sonoran Desert 8. White ... These stunning sand dunes create ...

whether it's paragliding above the dunes during the day or being engulfed in the stars at night.” A narrow canyon leading to the volcano Licancabur in the Atacama Desert. At night, the singular ...

About 700 miles long, the Atacama Desert features sand dunes and low, coastal mountains of dry rock that descend into salt flats. It is also the driest place on the planet. In this harsh landscape ...

The 2014 Dakar Rally will showcase off-road racers traveling over rugged ground – rocky canyons, dusty valley and the Atacama Desert dunes. Drivers will kick of in Argentina, wend through ...

As an ecologist at NASA and the SETI Institute, she has pioneered the study of some of the harshest and most remote deserts on Earth—from the mountainous red dunes in Namibia ... In the driest desert ...

Some 3,800 years ago a massive 9.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami with waves as high as 20 metres (66 feet) slammed the coastline of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the world’s driest ...

Although it looks like it has just disembarked from a spaceship, the story of the Amphore machine actually began amidst the golden dunes of Tunisia’s Sahara ... used from South America’s Atacama ...