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           A Gall-Peters projection of a  en:Visible Earth image collected by the  en:Earth Observatory experiment of the U.S. Government's  en:NASA space agency. The reticle is 15 degrees in latitude and longitude.  | 
        
        
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           =Originally from  en.wikipedia; description page is/was  here.  | 
        
        
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           23 August 2007  | 
        
        
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           NASA  | 
        
        
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