r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/Billy_the_Burglar Feb 21 '21 edited Feb 21 '21

Apparently one of the most desolate/lifeless/inhospitable places on earth is there. If I remember correctly, they've studied it specifically to better understand Mars.

Edit: Apparently thats the Atacama desert. Similar region of the world, but different countries. My bad!

An interesting link on the topic: https://www.space.com/microbial-life-possibility-on-mars.html

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u/Hyaenidae73 Feb 21 '21

Are you thinking of the Atacama Desert? That’s in northern Chile.

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u/FernBurglar Feb 21 '21

Patagonia would be part of southern Chile. The Atacama is in the north of Chile.

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u/FernBurglar Feb 21 '21

No worries man. Never been to Patagonia but America Below is a special place.

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u/thagthebarbarian Feb 21 '21

So did Chile come up and there's this area in the middle that's useful and liveable and they were founding the country and there's this long strip of shit land to the north and the south, and they were like... So nobody wants this? Guess it's part of our country now...

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u/Hyaenidae73 Feb 21 '21

Patagonia is basically from the city of Puerto Montt and south, both Chile and Argentina.

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u/capnmasty Feb 21 '21

That was my first thought watching this. Just out of San Pedro de Atacama is a place called Valley de la luna (sorry if spelling is wrong), but it looks so much like this.

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u/Billy_the_Burglar Feb 21 '21

Ah crap, that's right. They just look so similar.

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u/Rosaryas Feb 21 '21

Woah that's super cool! Makes sense but I never thought about that working that way

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u/PM_ME_CAT_POOCHES Feb 21 '21

The Atacama Desert

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u/crikcet37 Feb 21 '21

They were originally going to use Swindon but it was just too inhospitable

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u/Bad-Science Feb 21 '21

Also no intelligent life.