article_snippet.sent: (CNN)South America's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on EarthEarth, resembles some of the faraway planets monitored by giant telescopes there.
article_snippet.sent: The lack of humidity provides optimal conditions to watch the sky and study the origins of the universe.
article_snippet.sent: It is pure visual silence," said photographer Photographer Andres Figueroa.
article_snippet.sent: There is absolutely no humidity, and (these conditions) create some striking contrasts.
article_snippet.sent: There, in that clear, inhospitably arid environment, Photographer Andres Figueroa turned Photographer Andres Figueroa camera lens toward another discussion on cosmology, one rooted in the ancient folklore of the Andean people.
article_snippet.sent: I have always wanted to see the desert.
highlights_snippet.sent: Photographer Andres Figueroa spent a week in one of the driest places on Earth .
  