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| Keywords: texture outdoor painting abstract Vivid colors belie the arid landscape of northern Chile where the Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest, meets the foothills of the Andes. Here salt pans and gorges choked with mineral-streaked sediments give way to white-capped volcanoes. This scene was acquired on October 28, 2001, by the ASTER instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. (Credit: NASA/U.S. Geological Survey) Vivid colors belie the arid landscape of northern Chile where the Atacama Desert, one of the world's driest, meets the foothills of the Andes. Here salt pans and gorges choked with mineral-streaked sediments give way to white-capped volcanoes. This scene was acquired on October 28, 2001, by the ASTER instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. (Credit: NASA/U.S. Geological Survey) | ||||
