The Sahara Desert is a hot, sandy desert. Antarctica is a continent with a large desert covering much of it's surface. It is of course cold and much of it consists of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, although the dry valleys in the trans-antarctic mountains are not ice covered, and have sand dunes like more temperate deserts.
The Sahara Desert is hotter than the Atacama Desert, it's larger than the Atacama Desert and it has more life, but the Atacama Desert is much drier. The Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth, with an average of less than a millimetre of the rain.
The Atacama Desert is dryer than the Sahara Desert. The Atacama is considered the driest desert in the world, receiving very minimal precipitation, while the Sahara does receive occasional rainfall in some regions.
Yes, there are occasional dust storms in the Atacama Desert.
The Gibson, Kalahari, Atacama and Namib deserts.
No, the Atacama is a cold desert. The hottest desert use to be the Sahara in Libya but that title has recently been awarded to Death Valley in the Mojave Desert of North America.
Both Antarctica and the Atacama are drier that the Sahara Desert. Neither of which receives any appreciable precipitation.
The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world and Sahara is the largest hot desert with a span of 9,000,000 square kilometres (3,500,000 sq. mi.).The Atacama Desert (Chile) is the driest desert in the world, according to NASA, National Geographic and many other publications.
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There are schools in the few cities and towns located in the Atacama Desert.
The Mojave Desert is in the United States.
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The Sahara Desert is the largest "hot desert" in the world and covers most of the continent of North Africa. However, the largest desert in the world is actually Antarctica.