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File:New Caledonia - S199828000484.jpg

Summary

SeaWiFS captured this view of New Caledonia with neighboring Vanuatu hidden just beneath the clouds to the northeast.

Source:

Meta-data: Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS Datastart: 1998-10-07 Visible Earth: v1 ID 5203 Visualization Date: 1998-10-07

Credit: the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Centre, and ORBIMAGE

Licensing

Public domain This image is from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor ( SeaWiFS) Project and more than 5 years old.

Satellite data captured by the SeaWIFS sensor are released into the public domain 5 years after capture. Data less than five years old can be re-used only for educational or scientific purposes; any commercial use of such images must be coordinated with GeoEye.

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