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Atacama Desert, Chile

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Jan 11, 2004
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Vivid colors belie the arid landscape of northern Chile where the Atacama Desert,one of the world’s driest, meets the foothills of the Andes. Here salt pans andgorges choked with mineral-streaked sediments give way to white-capped volcanoes.

This scene was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA’sTerra satellite on October 28, 2001.

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Image provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series

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