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Caption: The Sentinel-2A satellite requires you to the varied landscape of the jap Atacama desert in South America. The area pictured lies all over 124 miles east of the Chilean metropolis of Antofagasta on the Pacific coastline (not pictured), and is just about devoid of vegetation. At the far appropriate of the graphic you can see portion of Chile’s most significant salt flat, the Salar de Atacama. With an regular elevation of some 1.four miles higher than sea level, it’s formed by waters flowing down from the Andes, which, acquiring no drainage retailers, are pressured to evaporate, leaving salt deposits.ESA
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Caption: The Sentinel-2A satellite requires you to the varied landscape of the jap Atacama desert in South America. The area pictured lies all over 124 miles east of the Chilean metropolis of Antofagasta on the Pacific coastline (not pictured), and is just about devoid of vegetation. At the far appropriate of the graphic you can see portion of Chile’s most significant salt flat, the Salar de Atacama. With an regular elevation of some 1.four miles higher than sea level, it’s formed by waters flowing down from the Andes, which, acquiring no drainage retailers, are pressured to evaporate, leaving salt deposits.ESA