The Atacama desert "alien mummy"
When truth is stranger than fiction
Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the most amazing places on the planet. This plateau is a 600 mile-long strip of land wedged between the Andes mountains and the Chilean coastal range, and is one of the driest places on Earth. It has a near-total lack of precipitation, with rain only falling every few years, with an overall average of half an inch of rainfall per year.
