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This is the story of an amazing discovery
Who started here in the Atacama Desert
Atacama is considered as the most arid desert in the world...
And the 105 000 km2, it is the largest in the Americas!
We can see a giant hand out of the sand
Hand desert, inaugurated in 1992, is a sculpture of a hand...
.. 36 feet (11metre) high wake up from sand of the Atacama Desert.
"Window on the world's Universe" (The nickname of the Atacama Desert)
Due to its location, the desert of Atacama...
.. is an exceptional site, for observing the sky,
due to the extreme dryness of the place ..
.. and the very low light pollution .
This is why we find several...
.. observatories, used by professional scientists
... and visit the public around the world.
The European Southern Observatory
The super telescope
This telescope will consist of a main mirror 4 times larger...
.. more than current large telescopes
It will receive 15 times more light and will....
.. much more accurate. A true technological advanced
which finally allow astronomers...
.. to directly observe the atmosphere of large extrasolar planet.
And can be established that we are not alone.
Iquique
A town at the foot of a chain mountainous sand, facing the sea
It has the largest businesses port South America
.. which is mainly used for export nitrates.
Location or are regularly seen UFO unidentified flying objects
and unexpected encounters with beings bloodcurdling!
La Noria
a ghost town in the Atacama Desert,
once it was a successful city the nitrate industry
.. that flourished in this region before the First World War
Today, it is said that the dead Cemetery La Noria...
Wake up during the night,
.. and would walk around the city,
Or is it the shadow of grave robbers?
This is where we found that we nicknamed "ATA"
a diminutive Atacama
the mummified skeleton of a small 6 inch (15 cm) strange body.
Is the man who has found the famous skeleton
he sought to sell trinkets
So this is him, unearthed near the church of La Noria
find in a piece of white clothing and tie with a purple ribbon
Credited for the first photo of ATA
20 ° 22'49 .78 "S 69 ° 50'56 .17" W Church, La Noria , chilie
Some nicknames received by the strange creature in 2003...
.. by locals. According of the local newspaper.
Algae used up as food in Chile
The year of the discovery of "ATA", another similar occurred ...
The creature was found by a child in LAS LAGUNAS
This creature Las Lagunas is comaparée to "The Monito del Monte"
The discovery of Ata is based on Article's Camilo Araneva Arriagana
published on Oct, 19 2003 "La Estrella De Iquique"
Sodium nitrate or Chile saltpeter (Salt)...
.. is used among other things as food preservation...
.. It is for this reason that mummies remain so...
.. In the desert.
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