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Back to Chile |
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Iquique
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Cerro Paranal |
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 The Chuquicamata open pit is 2 x 3 km large and 810 m deep, and is the largest metal mine of the world (Click to enlarge) |
The UK's newest telescope,
VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) in the
Atacama Desert, Chile. On top of the Cerro Paranal mountain at an
altitude of 2,635 metres. VISTA will perform the deepest ever large
area surveys of the southern sky, producing atlases of hundreds of
millions of celestial objects, from the nearest stars to galaxies
at the edge of the universe
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