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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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original data is PD-NASA; any possible rights in the derived image are released to the public domain
Public domain This file is in the public domain 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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