Rare Sight From Space: Snow Dusts the Dry Atacama Desert | Space Photo of the Day for July 23, 2025

Rare sight from space: Snow dusts the dry Atacama Desert | Space photo of the day for July 23, 2025

The Atacama Desert in Chile recently received some snowfall, causing issues for the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope.

NASA: Rare Snowfall in the Atacama Desert, Chile - SnowBrains

July 10, 2025. | Photo: NASA This post first appeared on NASA Earth Observatory and was written by Adam Voiland. The Atacama Desert’s location, between the Andes Mountains to the east and the cool Peru/Chile Current to the west, makes it one of the driest places on Earth. The mountain range produces a rain shadow, while the current chills the air enough to limit evaporation and cloud development. Related: Rare Snowfall Transforms South Africa’s…