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Summary
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English: South America. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). Image generated by custom Python code with orthographic projection formulas from MathWorld.
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Blue Marble data: 2002-02-11 |
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own work, using Blue Marble data from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2433 |
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Blue Marble by Reto Stockli, NASA/GSFC; orthographic projection by Dave Pape |
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original data is PD-NASA; any possible rights in the derived image are released to the public domain
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