The impact of general relativity on the Atacama Desert
by 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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Submitted on 11 March 2011
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Tito Aureliano 10 years, 5 months ago
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.