When snow shut down one of Earth’s most advanced telescopes high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the surprise was not just that the instruments went dark, but that it happened in a place famous for almost ...

High in northern Chile, where the Andes meet the Pacific, stretches a place unlike any other — the Atacama Desert. From the sky, its colors unfold in vast patterns: golden dunes, rugged ridges, and ...

Nestled between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert has earned the title of the driest place on Earth. The desert only sees rain a few times per century, or in some reaches ...

2008 Raid Atacama: The Atacama Desert in Chile The desert is dry but its coast is as majestic as any tropical vacation destination. The only thing vaster than the sandy dunes and the rocky, parched ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape blanketed in snow. Jared Verdi via Unsplash Nestled between the Andes Mountains ...