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History.Channel.How.The.Earth.Was.Made.S01E06.Driest.Place.on.Earth.720p.HDTV.x264-DHD
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SUMMARY
The Atacama desert is considered the driest place on Earth. Since human records of the area began,
some places have never received rain. But the records don't stop there--the Atacama is also the
oldest desert in the world, and recently it has been dated to an amazing 150 million years old.
Other research shows that the surface of this desert is also incredibly ancient, with boulders lying
there that have not moved for over 23 million years--more than 50 times longer than it's taken for
our human species to evolve. The soil is so dry, it has been used as a test bed for the Mars rovers.
And though the desert was once thought to be completely lifeless, strange bacteria discovered there
have given scientists new hope that they might find life on the red planet. Atacama is also home to
the largest copper mine in the world. Inspect the riddle of the Atacama and uncover how this
extraordinarily dry landscape was created.
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