The presence of quadbikes, 4X4s, and all-terrain motorcycles has destroyed a collection of huge artworks that were carved ...
Chile has failed to stop cars driving over the large designs etched into the rock of this vast landscape. Aerial images this ...
To reach the Atacama Desert, an adventure begins at the nearest major airport in Calama. From there, you have the option to ...
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, ensuring clear skies for most of the year. This unique ...
The dry, desolate landscape of the Atacama Desert has been used by American space agency Nasa to replicate conditions on Mars Sign up for notifications to the latest Insight features via the BBC ...
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Picture taken at one of the sites inspected in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Note the Petri plates with different growing media placed on top of the soil surface. Disclaimer ...
Chileans and tourists from further afield come to view the unusually colourful desert After intense and unexpected rain fell in the north of Chile, parts of the usually arid Atacama desert have ...
Gabriela Carrasco, an undergraduate researcher at the time, is identifying, labeling, collecting, and freezing plant samples in the Atacama Desert. These samples then traveled 1,000 miles ...
To help lure and orientate tourists to the desert region of Atacama, a visitor centre by Emilio Marín and Juan Carlos López was built on the land as part of a wind farm. Commissioned in 2013, the ...