The Atacama is one of the world's strangest landscapes — a desert that really gets no rain at all.

阿塔卡玛拥有世界上最奇怪的风景，一个永远不下雨的沙漠。

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Mining minister Laurence Golborne said miners would start being individually evacuated 68 days after the collapse of part of the gold and copper mine in the Atacama desert.

矿业部长劳伦塞·戈尔沃内说在阿塔·卡玛沙漠铜金矿部分坍塌68天后将开始对矿工一一实施救援。

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On another cutting edge of radio astronomy is a brand new international observatory that's under construction in Chile's Atacama Desert.

在智利阿塔卡玛沙漠，全新的国际天文观察站正在建设中，它是射电天文学的另一个最尖端项目。

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"Eso's La Silla Observatory on the outskirts of the Atacama Desert is certainly one of the best astronomical sites in the world, " said Michael Gillon, who leads the exoplanet survey for Trappist.

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Known as the driest, highest desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is full of surprises: mountains, volcanoes, salt flats, geysers, wetlands, hot springs and an abundance of animal and plant life.

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The northern third of the country is dominated by the Atacama Desert, a spectacular region of salt flats, geysers and volcanic peaks.

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