We travel from Santiago to Calama, pick up a rental car and start our 3 day road trip around San Pedro de Atacama. We drive an hour and half to San Pedro, dump our bags and head to Valle de la Luna or ...

It's Day 2 of our Atacama Desert road trip and we manage to cover Laguna Miscanti, Laguna Miniques, salt flats and Laguna de Chaxa. The day comes to an awesome end when we find a salt water pool for a ...

Mars parallels: A rare rain event occurred in Chile's Atacama Desert in 2017. NASA's ARADS (Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies) team studied microorganisms in 2018 that may have thrived in ...

Chile is South America’s sleeper hit—a 2,670-mile strip where the world’s driest desert, tidewater glaciers, and remote Rapa Nui (Easter Island) all fit inside a ribbon never wider than 110 miles.

Ethereal images from the Mars rover Perseverance have lit up the internet ever since NASA’s latest high-tech robot landed on the Red Planet on February 18. The photos, released on NASA’s website, ...