Atacama in a sentence

San Pedro de Atacama is host to the annual "Atacama Crossing", a six-stage, convert footrace which annually attracts about 150 competitors from 35 countries.

ESO operates ground-based telescopes in Chile including the Very Large Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and the New Technology Telescope.

Observations by the Sphere instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, showed V960 had increased its brightness by more than 20 times.

Sometimes called the Peru-Chile Trench, the Atacama Trench is visible in dark blue on this relief map (sea level is green and mountains are red).

The 51-room Our Habitas Atacama, which opened on Sept. 15, is shaking things up as the most recent opening in a destination that rarely sees them.

The company has butted heads with Chile’s Corfo over its leases in the Salar de Atacama, where the company’s lithium brine operations are located, but the two parties came to a resolution in January 2018.

The company owns lithium brine operations in Nevada's Clayton Valley near Silver Peak in the US, as well as in the Salar de Atacama in Chile.

Then the Caravana de la Muerte arrived in that Puma helicopter, and, on October 19, Carlos and 25 other political prisoners were taken into the Atacama desert, where they were first eviscerated by bayonets and then shot point-blank.

These instruments were tested in Red Stone, which is located in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.

The latest Atacama Rally, on Sept. 7, moved to Tierra Amarilla, which is about 600 miles from Tarapacá.

The Philippines is the only country with a link to practically all cultures—from the Aborigines of Australia to the Mustafa Kemal of the Turks, Atacama Desert in Hebrew, and Ogba language of Nigeria, De Vega added.

A portion of a new picture of the oldest light in the universe taken by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May don’t exactly seem equipped to take on the Amazon jungle, the Atacama desert, or Bolivia’s “Death Road” in clapped-out SUVs, and that’s what makes the Bolivia Special one of the best.

Significant steps have been taken by Wealth and Uranium One to select contractors for field work at the Atacama Project and retain consultants for legal, financial and geological studies.

The Atacama Desert is the driest on earth and has the most intense solar radiation on the planet.

The team of scientists studied the star for 27 years using European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, hoping to unlock the mysteries of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Experiments in Chile’s Atacama Desert point to a potential method of transportation for microbes on Mars—whether they exist there already, or we introduce them.

In addition, unlike Chile’s sun-drenched Atacama salt flats, snow and rain slow the evaporation process needed to extract lithium from brine in Uyuni, and the landlocked nation will have to use a port in neighboring Chile or Peru to ship the metal out.

While it may sound toxic, this chemical would be right at home on Titan, where significant quantities of it have been detected through data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a group of radio telescopes in Chile.

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