we have never hadthe record that the bloom has happened twice in the same year," said Daniel, who worked inAtacama.The Atacama Desert is not the only desert that can be so quite different in the rainy season.The Utah Desert is usually very dry, but for a few short weeks every few ye...
As one of the driestplaces on the earth,it is made up mostly of salt lakes, sand and lava(火山岩). It gets a rainfall of just 15mm every year, and a few areas in thedesert get as little as 1mm.After knowing this, perhaps you may think the desert is lifeless andisn't good enough...
In the Desert & Altiplano, life can be found in even the most unlikely places, such as in the Altiplano lakes, some of which are 10 times saltier than the sea and have little oxygen. Learn more > History While evidence of human existence in Atacama desert dates back over 10,000 years...
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B In the middle of one of the driest places in the world sits an oasis(绿洲) town with many palm trees and a lake whose water is said to have the power to make a person healthy again after an illness. It sounds like a fairy tale, right? Well, surprisingly, it's true. The magic...
South America’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, resembles some of the faraway planets monitored by giant telescopes there. The lack of humidity provides optimal conditions to watch the sky and study the origins of the universe. There, in that clear, inhospitably arid envir...
The driest parts of North America lie in the hot deserts of the Mojave and the Sonoran in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. California'sDeath Valleyin the Mojave is often called the driest site on the continent. This lowest and hottest area in North America receives less tha...
Many times this area will go without rainfall at all for years. Some places in the Atacama Desert have not had rainfall for over 400 years. The Atacama desert is found along the coast of Chile, South America - right next to the Pacific Ocean-the biggest body of water in the world. Muc...
Thanks to its remoteness, high altitude and lack of rain and light pollution, the desert’s night skies are some of the darkest and clearest on earth. As a result, the Atacama is one of the best places on the planet to study astronomy. Or, for the casual traveler, to go stargazing. ...