It contains the world's largest supply of sodium nitrate, and isolation and clarity of the skies also make it home to a number of telescopic observatories including the Paranal.
It contains the world's largest supply of sodium nitrate, and isolation and clarity of the skies also make it home to a number of telescopic observatories including the Paranal. It also holds the Escondida Mine, the world's largest open-pit (*) copper mine, and this desert suffers from a double rain shadow from the Corderilla Domeyko to the east and the Andes mountains to the west. FTP, name this driest place on Earth, a long 600 mile stretch of desert in South America.
It contains the world's largest supply of sodium nitrate, and isolation and clarity of the skies also make it home to a number of telescopic observatories including the Paranal.
{Atacama} Desert