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http://maps.google.com/?t=k&ll=-23.50733,-68.373413&spn=0.242104,0.322037

Up in the Chilean altiplano, this is presumably some sort of mining facility; it looks a bit better on Google Earth but I'm not sure how to link to it there.

The bottom blue square is a mile and a half on a side. As to the purpose of the straight lines etched across the desert, search me.

Date: 2006-04-09 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annafdd.livejournal.com
It could be the salt flats. A friend of mine went there on a treck from Peru to Chile, and took some totally otherworldly photos. It's one of the places I would love to visit.

Date: 2006-04-09 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mobbsy.livejournal.com
Finding out what these things are is good fun. I think they're evapouration pans for mineral extraction from the Salar de Atacama, probably this company's operation. I think the lines are pipes for pumping brine around.

Date: 2006-04-09 03:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottscidmore.livejournal.com
Pipes or roads, from poking around on that web site.

Google Earth

Date: 2006-04-09 07:37 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com
Add -> Placemark and then save the placemark. Example.

Date: 2006-04-10 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com
Straight lines in the desert are traditionally assumed to be landing strips for alien craft, no? :)

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