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The makers of the next James Bond movie had joined astronomers in the eerie Martian-like landscape of Chile's Atacama desert, the European Southern Observatory said.
Key scenes from Quantum of Solace are being shot at Cerro Paranal, a 2600m-high mountain.
To give astronomers rest, ESO had a hotel or "residencia" at base camp, which "is the perfect hide-out for Dominic Greene", the movie's arch-villain, Quantum of Solace producer Michael Wilson said.
