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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

NASA: Earth's true colors


Photo: NASA

The image of North America were produced by researchers at Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center. it used images from the Terra satellite more than 700km (435 miles) above the Earth's surface.

The Blue Marble series was pieced together from thousands of images taken over many months by the satellite's remote-sensing device Modis. The Modis imaged every square kilometre of the Earth's surface.

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