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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Work Progresses on Giant Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert By Rodrigo Gutierrez CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...