La Mano del Desierto is a giant sculpture in Chile’s Atacama Desert. It stands over 11 meters tall, making it a striking ...

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

"There is no place on earth quite like the Atacama desert,” explains Oliver Ripley, Our Habitas Co-Founder and CEO. “It's an incredibly serene and humbling place, which is a draw for those ...

On the Atacama Desert plateau, the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, known as ALMA, is situated, the work of an international consortium of research institutions, including those in ...

This megaproject, which was proposed in December by U.S. power company AES Corporation's AES Andes subsidiary, may be built in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Atacama is famed for its pitch-black ...

Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the ...

The desert’s remoteness and ... to move them to new locations on the plateau as needed. By the time it was officially inaugurated in March 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

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 ...

and salt lakes of western China and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In the driest desert in the world—the Atacama Desert of Chile—Kimberley teamed with Carnegie Mellon Institute of Robotics for several ...

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 ...

It is situated in the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, considered one of the best places on Earth for astronomy. The telescope is located on Armazones Hill, about 3,050 meters (10,000 feet ...