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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.
Date 23 August 2007
Source =Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Author NASA

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