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Image: Equirectangular-projection

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Description: An equirectangular projection, with the equator as the standard parallel, of a Visible Earth image collected by the Earth Observatory experiment of the U.S. Government's NASA space agency. The reticle is 15 degrees in latitude and longitude.
Title: Equirectangular-projection
Credit: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/: Info, Image. Modified by Mdf
Author: original by NASA (sensor Terra/MODIS), modified by Mdf
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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