Fog history of Atacama reconstructed Red destination: Choosing an Mars landing site As luck would ... Dr Schulze-Makuch's group is about to return to the desert to follow up on their sampling ...

Seriously: Atacama soil was put in a tube of ... Not for nothing is the desert sometimes referred to as “Mars on Earth" – thanks to its extreme aridity, its specific soil type, and UV ...

The Atacama is the world’s driest non-polar desert – a landscape so vast and arid that Nasa practices Mars expeditions there. So when a carpet of purple flowers began poking through the earth ...

At an incredible 5,800 metres (19,000ft) above sea level, this road has been declared the world's highest and climbs up the ...

“On Earth there are several environments similar to Mars, some of them are the Tinto River in Spain, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Mojave Desert in the United States, Antarctica, the Sahara ...

The driest deserts, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, have parts that receive less ... have even studied them for clues about life on Mars. On the other hand, every few years, an unusually rainy ...

Researchers in Spain have investigated how climate change may possibly impact solar power generation in the world’s region with the highest solar radiation levels – the Atacama desert in ...

ESO's Extremely Large Telescope construction at Atacama desert in Chile ...

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 ...