The Atacama Desert in northern Chile has weather stations that have recorded no rainfall for centuries, and yet a fog rolls in from the Pacific most mornings carrying just enough moisture to keep entire colonies of lichen alive on rocks that never see rain
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Some weather stations in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile have recorded no measurable rainfall for centuries. Not a drizzle. Not a passing shower. And yet, in the same terrain where the soil chemistry more closely resembles Mars than anything else on Earth, entire colonies of lichen cling to rocks and boulders, kept alive by a grey wall of Pacific fog that rolls in most mornings and dissolves by noon.
The fog is called camanchaca. It forms offshore, where the cold Humboldt Current chills the
The fog is called camanchaca. It forms offshore, where the cold Humboldt Current chills the
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