Airline passengers won't have to worry about riding a bus with uncomfortable temperatures (always too hot or too cold), going over bumpy terrain, or keeping an eye on their valuables on an all-night bus. This two-hour flight costs more than $250 USD for a one-way ticket and has a stopover in Cochabamba. The visitor from Iceland wisely chose to take an airplane from El Alto International Airport in La Paz, Bolivia's capital to Uyuni's airport. The travelers in the van each followed a distinct path to Bolivia's top destination. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.Related: These Are The 10 Most-Visited Countries In South America Planes, Trains, And Buses To Uyuni The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet.
The dynamic geological history of the Altiplano is recorded in isolated “islands” within the salt flat (image left) these islands are typically built from fossil coral reefs covered by Andean volcanic rocks.Īstronaut photograph ISS012-E-6456 was acquired November 3, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera with an 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. These sediments provide a valuable paleoclimate record for the region. Sediments in the salar basin record fluctuations in water levels that occurred as the lake that once occupied the salar evaporated. Relict shorelines visible in the surface salt deposits (lower right of the image) attest to the occasional presence of small amounts of water in the salar.
The major minerals are halite-common table salt-and gypsum-a common component of drywall. Tunupa are in sharp contrast with the white, mineral-crusted surface of the salar. This mountain is high enough to support a summit glacier, and enough rain falls on the windward slopes to provide water for small communities along the base. This astronaut photograph features the northern end of the salar and the dormant volcano Mount Tunupa (image center).
The Salar de Uyuni covers approximately 8,000 square kilometers (3,100 square miles), and it is a major transport route across the Bolivian Altiplano due to its flatness. The plateau harbors fresh and saltwater lakes, together with salars, that are surrounded by mountains with no drainage outlets-all at elevations greater than 3,659 meters (12,000 feet) above mean sea level. The Altiplano is a high plateau formed during uplift of the Andes Mountains. The largest salar (salt flat) in the world, Salar de Uyuni, is located within the Altiplano of Bolivia in South America.
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