Amazing Capture Of Milky Way Reflected At The World's Largest Salt Flat

Determined to find a destination where he could photograph a completely dark sky, Russian photographer Daniel Kordan traveled to the Altiplano region of west-central South America, an area known for its absolute darkness, and which rises 12,300 feet above sea level. While here, Kordan captured the Uyuni salt flat with a special astrophotography camera.

"It seemed that we float in the open space. Our spaceship is parked in a distance, and stars are blinking with blue, red and yellow colors," Kordan described the shoot in an email to Quartz. "You stand in the deep night with stars above you, aside from you and underneath! It's space on Earth, isn't it?" The DSLR camera Kordan used unlocks the colors in the sky and casts the reflective Milky Way glow onto the flats. Kordan described the sight as "space on Earth."