This is the monster: the highest volcano on Earth, rising out of the grey moonscape of the Atacama Desert.
The northern third of the country is dominated by the Atacama Desert, a spectacular region of salt flats, geysers and volcanic peaks.
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Dr. Quanz and colleagues based their discovery on observations by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Dr. Quanz and his colleagues based their discovery on observations made by a high-resolution infrared camera linked to a telescope located in Chile's Atacama desert.
They are located more than 5.000m high in the Atacama Desert.
Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.
"Eso's La Silla Observatory on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert is certainly one of the best astronomical sites in the world, " said Michael Gillon, who leads the exoplanet survey for Trappist.
Thanks to its strategic location between the Andes, the Atacama Desert and the Pacific Ocean, the Arica and Parinacota region was once the home of three major empires -- Tiwanacu, Inca and Spanish.
From the 1830s through the 1920s the nitrates in Chile's Atacama Desert were used mainly for explosives, but the market collapsed in the late 1920s with the invention of synthetic nitrates and the onset of the Depression.
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), currently being built in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, will enable scientists to observe sub-millimeter radiation waves, giving them a far more detailed picture of the universe than has previously been possible with either optical or infrared telescopes.
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