Are there any other contenders for the title of the driest place on Earth?

Dec 15, 2022 ... Some places receive less than 0.09 inches (2 millimeters) of rainfall on average per year, qualifying them to be referred to as hyper-arid deserts. Nov 20, 2013 ... Water is precious in the Turpan Basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the hottest and driest place in China. A World Bank-supported ... Feb 21, 2024 ... Death Valley is well-known as the hottest place on Earth and the driest place in North America and is essentially a dry salt flat. Manly ... Aug 26, 2024 ... When the Hottest, Driest Place on Earth Became a Lake. In early 2024, huge atmospheric rivers transformed Badwater Basin in Death Valley into an ... Apr 20, 2017 ... Few places are as hostile to life as Chile's Atacama Desert. It's the driest place on Earth, and only the hardiest microbes survive there. Antarctica is the driest continent; it is almost entirely desert. Very little snow or rain falls on the continent, but because it is so cold, the small ... Mar 2, 2014 ... In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, it looks as if nothing could ever survive. It is one of the driest places in the world, and some ... Jul 13, 2023 ... Most visitors to Death Valley National Park only make it a short distance to any site at the hottest and driest place on Earth before ... Apr 11, 2025 ... ... driest place on earth Notable for their complete lack of snow and other precipitation, the McMurdo Dry valleys are a complete one-off ... Oct 30, 2015 ... Anyone who knows anything about deserts is aware of the Atacama Desert on the west coast of Chile by the Pacific Ocean, which has been ...