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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

Copyright information from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/useterms.php - With the exception of images produced by the SeaWiFS, QuickBird, and IKONOS instruments all images on the Visible Earth are governed by NASA's Terms of Use below. [...] For all non-private uses, NASA's Terms Of Use are as follows: 1. The imagery is free of licensing fees 2. NASA requires that they be provided a credit as the owners of the imagery [...]

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