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Hyper- arid Atacama desert hit by snow

A blanket of snow on the Atacama desert

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7 July 2011 Last updated at 12:44 ET Help

A large dump of snow has fallen on the Atacama desert in South America, one of the driest places on earth.

Nick Holland reports.

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