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Rock on a sandy desert slope covered in grey-green and yellow lichens, with two white mesh fog collectors on the ridge above under an overcast sky. — When Fog Becomes Life: Fog Water Harvesting in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert Felipe Ríos-Silva

Llama walking along a roadside barrier beside a blue lake, with a snow-capped cone-shaped volcano behind it, a smaller snowy peak far right and a large wing-shaped white cloud in a deep blue sky. — You never walk alone! Szabolcs Harangi

Tall thin dust devil, a pale twisting column of dust, rising into a deep blue sky beside a straight dirt road through dry orange desert scrub with a line of green trees on the right. — Dust devil in Atacama desert Rita Nogherotto

Weathered cliff of fine brown sediment in thin wavy layers, eroded into ledges and delicate ridges along cracks, under a grey cloudy sky. — Sandy Strata in the Atacama Desert Franko Arenas Díaz

Aerial view over a vast sandy desert plain with low dark hills, cut by a long canyon with steep pale walls, hazy mountains on the horizon. — Rio Loa canyon from the heights Franko Arenas Díaz

Wide panorama of a flat white salt crust with mounds of dark brown soil, ringed by bare desert slopes and a rounded mountain under a sky of scattered white and grey clouds. — Soil salt crust after a rainy day in the Atacama Desert Franko Arenas Díaz

Black-and-white view of a barren desert valley with eroded rock pinnacles and mounds on a pale plain, below rugged layered ridges and hazy distant hills. — Valle de la Luna, Atacama Desert, Chile Catarina Guerreiro

Black-and-white view of a steep, symmetrical cone volcano rising above a high plateau, with a second rounded peak behind it and a small truck driving along a road across a rocky slope in the foreground. — Mighty Licancabur: the sacred volcano of the Atacaman people. Catarina Guerreiro

Street covered by a thick bed of rippled light-brown sand and mud, with shrubs and a car dealer sign reading Automotora on the left, palm trees and street lamps behind. — Sedimentary record of catastrophic floods in the Atacama Desert Manu Abad

Person walking along the sharp crest of a huge sand dune, one side in deep shadow, towards eroded, gullied ridges glowing orange in low sunlight beneath a dark stormy sky, with white salt crusts on the left. — Cordillera de la Sal Martin Mergili

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