Image:Whole world - land and oceans 12000.jpg

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Satellite composition of the whole Earth's surface.
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NASA - Visible Earth, images combined and scaled down by HighInBC (20 megabyte upload limit)
Date

image released 11. Feb. 2002
Author

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Permission

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