The impact of general relativity on the Atacama Desert
Suzanne Imber
NASA GSFC, Ellicott City, USA
While travelling in the salt flats of Uyuni, Bolivia, we came across a train cemetery. The unusual graffiti on the side of this train can be recognised as Einstein's Field Equation!
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Suzanne Imber (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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JPG
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890.1 KB
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4:3
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2592 px
Height
1944 px
Exposure
6 mm f/4.9 1/275 s ISO 50
Tint
Brilliant blue
Published
11 March 2011
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The Atacama Desert is located at the other side of the Andes, in Chile. This picture was taken at the Cementerio de Trenes at the Potosí state, Bolivian Altiplano.