what do people do for a living that live in the driest desert in the world????? by Caleb Tommy & Luke
Monday, March 24, 2014
The driest desert in the world is the Atacama Desert it is in Chile. More than one million people live in the Atacama Desert.
The Atacama Desert is a good place to do astronomy. There usually aren't clouds. This picture shows the La Silla Observatory. There are a bunch of domes with telescopes inside in this picture. A lot of the people work in a mine for copper in the Atacama Desert.
With the Andes Mountains on the east and the Chilean Coast Range on the west, this otherwise arid area has been compared to the landscape of Mars, so much so that Hollywood and NASA have been here many times. Rocks, hills, dunes and granular salt flats all add to the visual feast.
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