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February 6, 2013
February 6, 2013
Atacama Desert, Chile
Photograph by Richard Nowitz, National Geographic
The Atacama Desert covers 600 miles from Peru's southern border into northern Chile. At its center, a place climatologists call absolute desert, is the driest place on Earth. There are stretches where rain has never been measured.
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