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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.
Date Blue Marble data: 2002-02-11
Source own work, using Blue Marble data from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2433
Author Blue Marble by Reto Stockli, NASA/GSFC; orthographic projection by Dave Pape
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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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Other versions File:South_America_satellite_orthographic.jpg
File:South America satellite plane.jpg

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