Atacama desert in Chile

Atacama desert in Chile is the driest. it receives just 0.1mm per year. In fact some parts of the desert have not seen rainfall for over 400 years making it in most estimations the driest place on the planet earth.


on the 3rd October 2011 it also officially became home to the most expensive ground telescope in the world,  known as ALMA. The telescope consists of an array of 66 radio telescopes all using radio waves to peer deep into space helping us learn more about star formations especially during the early years of the universe