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Caldera, Atacama Desert (Chile), Oct 15 (EFE).- Some define it as a "mystery", others as a "miracle": every so often, the Atacama desert, one of the driest areas of the world, is covered with a blanket of thousands of flowers in a vibrant and colorful spectacle that, according to experts, could be threatened by climate change. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES)SHOT LIST: THE ATACAMA DESERT IN CHILE.
Atacama Desert, Jun 8 (EFE).- Chile inaugurated Tuesday the first thermosolar energy plant in Latin America known as Cerro Dominador.With around 10,600 heliostats, 392,000 solar panels and a 250 meter high tower, the plant is located in the Atacama desert,where it will get one of the highest levels of solar radiation in the world. (Camera: JOSE CAVIEDES).SHOT LIST: THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY OF CERRO DOMINADOR IN ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE.SOUND BITE: CHILEAN PRESIDENT SEBASTIAN PIÑERA (IN SPANISH).TRANSLATION: Cerro Dominador is not just a state-of-the-art energy project, it is much more than that. It is a step towards a better, cleaner, more sustainable, greener world, in which human beings will not only have the assurance that we can survive on planet earth, but also have a good quality of life.
One of the driest places on earth, the Atacama Desert in the Antofagasta Region in Chile, has been putting its high share of solar radiation to good use as it has become home to Cerro Dominador solar plant, the first of its kind in Latin America and one of the largest in the world.
The Audi Q8 also continues where paved roads end. The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on earth and an ideal place to test the four-door luxury coupé with the practical versatility of a large SUV.
Researchers at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History tried to reveal the secrets of the Chinchorro mummies, the oldest in the world, with modern medical image analysis. According to the researchers, the Chinchorro People began mummifying human remains in their native Atacama Desert up to 2,000 years before the Ancient Egyptians. The Atacama Desert is one of the driest in the world, an ideal environment for preservation of mummies. The imaging analysis is based on a paleoradiology diagnostic method, which consists of the application of modern medical imaging techniques in the examination of human and animal remains as well as archaeological sites and tools. Who knows what secrets they will discover?
A British palaeontologist has discovered a new species of dinosaur while studying fossils in a Canadian museum. Pentaceratops aquilonius was related to Triceratops and lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period, around 75 million years ago. Jim Drury has more.