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File:Lake Malawi seen from orbit.jpg

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Lake Malawi in Africa, photographed by astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle.

Original image courtesy of the Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Centre ( eol.jsc.nasa.gov). Image ID: STS061-75-48. Image cropped, sharpened and gamma-corrected.

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