Salar de Uyuni: The Flattest Place on Earth 🌎

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni, the world's flattest area, is used by NASA for testing due to its vast, level terrain. Size comparable to New Jersey.

Salar de Uyuni: The Flattest Place on Earth 🌎
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3.8K views • Sep 9, 2008
Salar de Uyuni: The Flattest Place on Earth 🌎

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http://good.is/<br /><br />With an area about the size of New Jersey, Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat is known as the flattest place on earth. So when NASA needs to calibrate the satellite it uses to measure the melting of the polar ice caps, they point the ICESat's laser at the Salar de Uyuni first. One of earth's fascinating natural phenomena helping us gauge the fate of another. An original GOOD Video.

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