atacama in A Sentence

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    San Pedro de Atacama.

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    The Atacama Large Millimeter.

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    The Atacama Large Millimeter Array ALMA.

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    The Atacama Desert.

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    The Atacama Trench.

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    The Andes prevent rain clouds from reaching the Atacama;

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    Figure 5: A large amphipod recovered from the Atacama trench during ATACAMEX 2018.

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    Indeed, earlier this year NASA completed its second season of tests in the Atacama Desert.

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    Atacama's clear skies also make the desert an ideal location for the world's most powerful telescopes.

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    From Siberia to the Atacama Desert in Chile, to see something called The Very Large Telescope.

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    Rain has never been recorded in parts of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

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    Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971.

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    At 7,500 feet, Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth with a landscape of surreal beauty.

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    On the other hand, every few years, an unusually rainy period can produce"super blooms," where even the Atacama becomes blanketed in wildflowers.

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    The reason why you have to build these telescopes in places like the Atacama Desert is because of the high altitude desert.

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    For instance the San Pedro de Atacama in the north is a small town that offers native ruins, and a popular archeological museum.

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    In fact, in many spots the Atacama is so barren that there aren't even any flies because there's nothing for them to eat.

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    Geological and mineralogical studies show that the Atacama has been arid for more than 20 million years, which makes it the world's oldest stretch of desert.

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    In 2012, for the first time since weather records have been kept, the Atacama was hit with four days of rain so heavy it caused floods and mudslides.

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    Figure 1: The Chilean benthic lander Audacia is lowered into the sea at the start of its third, and record setting dive, to 8,081m in the Atacama Trench.

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    This ghost town, Santa Laura, is one of the remnants of a largely-forgotten industry that once made the Atacama Desert one of the most valuable places in the world.

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    The galaxy, known as ALESS65, was observed by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array(ALMA) in 2011 and is one of fewer than 20 known distant galaxies to contain carbon monoxide.

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    Shafik travelled with Journey Latin America, who offer a seven-night trip to Santiago, Iquique, the ghost towns and San Pedro de Atacama from £2549 per person(including transfers, B&B accommodation, excursions, and all flights).

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    If one visits the place in early spring they might be lucky enough to catch the Atacama Desert blooming with flowers which is a rare spectacle considering the desert is supposedly the driest place on earth.

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    On 11 August 2014, astronomers released studies, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array(ALMA) for the first time, that detailed the distribution of HCN, HNC, H2CO, and dust inside the comae of comets C/2012 F6(Lemmon) and C/2012 S1 ISON.

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    Hardy added,“With their new benthic lander, and the experienced and talented IMO benthic lander team, Chile and its marine scientists have put themselves on the leading edge of deep-ocean investigation of the Atacama Trench and other areas of the southern oceans.

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