(CNN) – Images of Marte Perseverance’s rover images have surfaced on the Internet since NASA’s latest high-tech robot landed on the red planet on 18 February.
The photos, published on NASA’s web site, represent a secluded orange-brown sunflower with live escarpment and rocky cliffs that are serpentine on the horizon.
Although decidedly different, they are also very familiar with them. These quizzes are being debated and the images appear to have much to do here in Tierra, a remote desert in Chile since NASA’s own dedicated time and money to explore.
“If you can discuss the Vales Secos in Antarctica or the central-northern part of Atacama, it will be the most secular part of the Tierra, but some parts of Atacama will only receive lluvias every 20 or 100 years,” dice Brian Glass, chief the investigator of the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS; 2016-2019), who used the Atacama Desert to try out hermines and techniques for future missions in March.
Debating that Atacama is a deadly and desolate place, NASA has leaked as the perfect analogue to March in the Earth, trying to find rovers here regularly since 1997. The last time he used prototypes of instruments to detect life, “because if we can do it in one of the most deadly places in the Tierra, we do not know why it took place in March “, explains Glass.
NASA’s ARADS team works with its Marte rover prototype in the Atacama Desert in Chile in 2018. (NASA / CampoAlto / Victor Robles)
Atacama is a deserted desert of 1,600 kms in the northern part of Chile between the Pacific Ocean, the west, and the Andes, the east. Glas dobbeltsteen que in order to understand when without there are certain parts, you can think in terms of organic signal (or sea, life) in the background.
“The signal, including in Mojave and parts of the EE.UU continent, is already very strong”, dobbeltsteen. «Todavía is found in trees, cacti, microorganisms, scorpions, insects; todavía hay un ecosystem ».
On the contrary, in the hypertaic Atacama, “a literal caesarean section, the brace is covered with a powder and is not preoccupied with counteracting an infection because it has no local pathogens”, dijo.
How can we visit a place that NASA compares with March in the Earth?
Like March, Atacama has an extreme topography with fasting hills and volcanic volcanoes, including the highest activity of the earth. It also has some of the most obscure celestial bodies on our planet and the largest astronomical installations.
With Chile evacuating its rapidly growing population in any other United States (including the United States), the World War II is likely to be one of the region’s first destinations for the benefit of international visitors. However, if these dramatic images of Perseverance had given him a new interest in Marte, the more he could have been on a terrestrial plane.
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NASA has claimed to be part of the desolate desert of Atacama as the perfect analogue to March in the Earth. (Mark Johanson)
Is there anything more to the earth?
When the scientists called Atacama, the place was not farther from the earth, its places like Yungay’s of those that were inhabited. This remote panorama, an 88 km from the Antofagasta city, is not the NASA realizes part of its investigation.
“Yungay is in a valley full of erosive cliffs coming from both lads,” Doublesteen Glas. «It is very brown and very sterile; has no live signals ».
Hay, ironically, a 10-meter high-rise building of a mano-burnt-out truck traversed the nearby desert. Conocida como Mano del Desierto, which was located near Yungay in 1992 by the Chilean artist Mario Irarrázabal, much earlier than this year as a place where NASA has some of the busiest live signals from the surface.
Although it has been a long time since Yungay thought it would be more likely to attack Atacama, recent Indian investigations suggest the title belongs to María Elena Sur, who is looking for a 270km northbound minaret.
None of these lodges have tourist attractions or attractions, except for the key points to appreciate the Atacama Vacation and its parallels with Marte, particularly because of the Walls Secos of McMurdo of Antarctica (which many scientists say are more than enough.
El Tatio is a yellowstone mini species with 80 borboteando geysers. (Shutterstock)
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Volcanoes and geysers
March is the height of the volcano more alto of our solar system, Olympus Mons, while Atacama alberga the volcano active most alto of the earth, Ojos del Salado.
This mountainous muscle of gray maroon grows 6,893 meters above sea level and is the second highest peak in the Occidental Hemisphere after the Aconcagua in Argentina.
Sondeverbod, the superlatives do not exist here; creates that its layer of permanent crater is the body of water more alto of the world.
“The appearance of this impressive volcano in a rough area of other volcanoes high up to more than 6,000 meters should be felt as if they were very small”, Derstein Ercio Mettifogo, who directs the local tourist operator Puna de Atacama.
The Salad Islands do not have a very technical ascent, although the altitude is extreme, the wind speeds (up to 120 km / h) and the low temperatures (by -29 degrees Celsius) are certainly convincing. The Mayor of the escalators takes place between November and April with expeditions of between 8 days for experts and 12 days for mountaineers.
The Atacama Altiplano is close to the Tibetan coast, and the nearby Salad Islands have one of 17 mountains close to the 6,000 meters, Mettifogo said, which is located in a center for adventure travel.
Further north, near the tourist town of San Pedro de Atacama, there is another Atacama geothermal marvel: El Tatio, a mini Yellowstone with 80 borboteando geysers and more gaseous smokers.
Surrounded by a panoramic view of snow-covered volcanoes, El Tatio is the largest geyser camp of the hemisphere on top of the highest altitude of the Tierra 4,319 metro above sea level.
The Nevado National Park Tres Cruces is the place of flames. (Mark Johanson)
Salaries and flames
Atacama’s part can be as dead as Marte’s, but it’s a desolate color all around its spectacular salaries, cuyas aguas salads albergan una amplia gevarieerd de vida, including flamencos.
There is the rare andino flamenco, which has yellow and yellow dots, and the flame of James, a little more tiny, which has red ladle and a brilliant yellow apple. También is the flame most rosy of all: the Chilean flame, which, given its number, is the most common in South America, which is found in Argentina is Ecuador.
These pink spades are easily found in highland parks such as the Los Flamencos National Reserve, near San Pedro, and the Nevado Tres Cruces National Park, near the city of Copiapó.
“Las salinas también son famosas por sus multicolores lagunas”, dobbeltsteen Gabriel Rojas de Turismo Atacamensis, quien lleva a los visitors in nadar en laera turuna laguna del Salar de Pedernales, al norte del Parque Nacional Nevado Tres Cruces. Pedernales also has red song pools, navy blue and emerald green, all connected on a 3 kms transmitter route that Rojas built with his German.
Some scientists claim that, if we find signs of life in March, they will be in its stinking historical halls, which are formed in places like the Gale crater and are said to be remarkably similar to those found in the South American Altiplano.
The Turkish lagoon of Salar de Pedernales is just north of the Nevado Tres Cruces National Park. (Mark Johanson)
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The world’s clearest cities
The Atacama Desert is not just a test site of NASA for future missions in March; It is also the same place where some of the most advanced planetary observations are made here in Tierra.
The north of Chile has already raised 70% of global infrastructure for terrestrial astronomy. The larger projects of the decade of 2020, including the Giant Telescopy of Magallanes and the Extremely Large Telescope, will be available on spring days here in the coming years.
“When the night, the silence, and the uncertainty produced by the onset of large cities – and their ruin and luminescent contamination – se vuelven as an escalator to the sky to be felt as if the cosmos were touched with its manos”, dobbeltsteen Cristóbal Vergara, founder of Turismo Tembeta, who conducts stargazing observations from the city of La Serena.
The Valley of Elqui, at the extreme on the Atacama Desert, has been converted into an important center only for the scientists, both for the aficionados and the observation of stars.
“The mountain range will be retained by the mayor on the part of the nebulous province of the Pacific, which allows for clear coverage of clouds and clouds that are constant here”, Dice Vergara on conditions, and signal that can only be recovered in a single year there is a time when the sun rises.
For more professional, there is a dozen observatories near the Vicuña tourist center open to astro-tourists hoping to see the Jackson Pollock sky. Various installations based on the investigation, including Gemini South, Cerro Tololo, La Silla and Las Campanas, also open weekly weekends for guided tours.
El Valle de Elqui was named the first International Sanctuary of the World Sky in 2015. This design has an eye on the accommodation with transparent ceilings so that you can sleep comfortably with a radiance.
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Vergara says that the greater part of observing the rays here is that they are “in the same place where many great explorations, advances in technology and new astronomical discoveries that can help the future of humanity” occur.
Although Atacama is not a sea tan holiday, hope or extra like Marte, but it is the closest thing we have to the red planet in the Earth. Visitor is experimenting with the alluring sensation of what is going to happen to this world.
Mark Johanson is a periodic independent radicado in Santiago, Chile. His writings appeared in Lonely Planet, Men’s Journal, GQ, Newsweek and The Guardian, among others. You can follow him on social media @MarkontheMap.