Atacama Desert, Chile (IMAGE)

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Atacama Desert, Chile

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This is an image of Chile's Atacama Desert captured via the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on 28 Oct. 2001. See related article by Teresa Jordan and colleagues.

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