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On This Day in 2011: Snow in the Atacama Desert

These images provide an unusual sight: snow covering one of the world’s driest deserts.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story On This Day in 2011: Snow in the Atacama Desert.

NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek and Mike Carlowicz.

Published July 7, 2023
Data acquired July 7, 2011