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Salar de Atacama, Chile

In perhaps the driest place on Earth, water still shapes the landscape.


NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott, based on image interpretation by Eric Livo and Dan Knepper, U.S. Geological Survey.

Published November 29, 2011
Data acquired March 21, 2002

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Landsat 7 > ETM+