The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.

2025年1月28日 · Atacama Desert, cool, arid region in northern Chile, 600 to 700 miles (1,000 to 1,100 km) long from north to south. Its limits are not exactly determined, but it lies mainly between the south bend of the Loa River and the mountains …

2022年1月5日 · Chile’s Atacama Desert may be the next best option with desiccated salt flats, inhospitable wildlands and vast lifeless landscapes that NASA uses to test instruments for outer space.

2019年2月12日 · Wedged between two mountain ranges along Chile's coast, the Atacama Desert is the oldest and driest desert in the world. It has also provided scientists with a wealth of research opportunities.

2022年7月1日 · The Atacama Desert stretches across 600 to 700 miles of land between the spectacular Andes Mountains and the Cordillera de la Costa mountain range. Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia border the Atacama Desert.

2021年10月23日 · The driest nonpolar desert on planet Earth, northern Chile's Atacama Desert is like a Martian landscape that's nestled between the Andes Mountains and South America's …

2024年3月1日 · The Atacama Desert, also known as Desierto de Atacama in Spanish, is nestled between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes Mountains to the east. Its northern border touches southern Peru, while its southern side extends into Chile, reaching toward the country's port city of Antofagasta.

The Atacama Desert of Chile covers the northern third of the country stretching more than 600 miles (1,000km), and straddles the southern border of Peru. Bound on the west by barren hills and mountains on the Pacific coast, it extends east into the Andes Mountains.

The Atacama Desert, Earth’s driest desert, sprawls across northern Chile, a testament to nature’s extremes. Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, this arid expanse stretches over 600 miles, offering a mesmerizing landscape of salt flats, towering dunes, and lunar-like valleys.

2024年4月25日 · Overview: Researchers recently found microbes thriving 13 feet beneath the scorched surface of Chile's Atacama Desert, marking the deepest discovery of microbial life in …