I had always dreamed of going to the oldest and driest desert in the world. Photos from Atacama in Chile and Mars are quite similar. Here in the desert, geologists do, conduct experiments with robots to send them later to the surface of the Red Planet.
http://www.cinemachile.cl/en/catalogo/this-day-we-saw-the-volcano/
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I was invited to Antofagasta and take part in an artistic residency -SACO-Contemporary Art Festival – run by the Polish artist Dagmara Wyskiel. I was invited to collaborate with her on her artistic documentary. We filmed in amazing places in the desert, such as Mejillones Peninsula, Calama, San Francisco de Chiu Chiu, abandoned nitrate towns (“oficinas salitreras” in Spanish).
During my artistic residency in Antofagasta I explored Atacama with Professor Guillermo Chong from the Catholic University of the North at Antofagasta. Driving with our crew we reached 3600 m range of the Cordillera Domeyko. We found deposits of fossils, traces of cars left more than century ago and ruins of silver mines. Atacama is alive. We saw herds of vicunas at the plateau and plants which were feeding with humidity from the clouds.
Julia Popławska 
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