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SOUTH AMERICA
CH I L E
Martian landscape
Despite its name, the eroded hills of Valle
de la Luna in Chile look more like the CHILE
surface of Mars than the Moon. Located
in the Atacama Desert, this region is
regarded as one of the driest places on
Valle de
Earth – some years no rain falls at all. la Luna
When experiments used by the Viking
Mars rovers were duplicated here, some
CHILE
soil samples contained no signs of life.
PHOTO: PLANET LABS INC
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