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#1 2022-09-04 13:37:25

Mars_B4_Moon
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Atacama Desert - República de Chile

'The Atacama Desert is by far the driest and oldest desert on Earth, showing a unique combination of environmental extremes (extreme dryness, the highest UV radiation levels on Earth, and highly saline and oxidizing soils), explaining why the Atacama has been largely investigated as a Mars analog model for almost 20 years. '
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 … 10426/full

During the Late 70s and 1980s ESO began to move its European Southern Observatory into the mountains of Atacama Desert of northern Chile, NASA is often there with people checking for new lifeforms in the sands. The Radio Array ALMA is an international partnership amongst Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile.

Atacama desert could hold secrets of life on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp5uyxCfNkw

1 Min road trip video with music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ529dTtC-o
The Atacama: Mars in South America

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Chile's Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth -- and a ready analog for Mars' rugged, arid terrain.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/atacama-landscape/

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#2 2022-09-22 03:08:16

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Re: Atacama Desert - República de Chile

One man's trash another man's treasure?

'Shameful hidden cost of your fast fashion: Dumped in the Atacama desert, the mountain of discarded cheap clothes from the West that even charities don't want'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … -West.html

Mars is littered with 15,694 pounds of human trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
https://theconversation.com/mars-is-lit … ion-188881

Not sure about Chile but Mars it seems to be Trash and Space Junk which could have future value as cultural items in a colony that will one day be in a museum on Mars.

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