Soil salt crust after a rainy day in the Atacama Desert

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Franko Arenas Díaz
Departamento de Geología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile

This photograph was taken in the area of Yungay, within the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert after an unusual day of rain.

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Type Image Format JPG Size 41.4 MB Width 11712 px Height 3816 px Aspect 488:159 Panorama Brand Apple Model iPhone 8 Exposure 4 mm f/1.8 1/5405 s ISO 25 Taken 19 July 2018 Coordinates -24.0792, -69.9252 Tint Brownish pink Submitted 11 February 2019

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