From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
It can be extremely hot during the day and freezing cold at night. There is sparse vegetation and little ... erectus lived in a semi-desert environment consisting mostly of shrubland. The evidence ...
As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.