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This is a comparison of the Southern Hawaiian Islands in actual pixels from:

Image:Whole world - land and oceans_12000.jpg - To the left and Image:Whole world - land and oceans.jpg - To the right


Description

Satellite composition of the whole Earth's surface.

Source

NASA - Visible Earth, images combined from modifications by Dbenbenn and HighInBC

Date

image released 11. Feb. 2002

Author

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Permission

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Other versions Image:Whole world - land and oceans 12000.jpg(source left) and Image:Whole world - land and oceans.jpg(source right).


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