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• [2006-08-11T21:57:30Z] HighInBC ({{Information| |Description = Satellite composition of the whole Earth's surface. |Source = NASA - Visible Earth, images combined and scaled down by [[User:HighInBC|HighInBC]] (20 megabyte upload limit) * [--visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?vev1id=)
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{{Information| |Description = Satellite composition of the whole Earth's surface. |Source = NASA - Visible Earth, images combined and scaled down by [[User:HighInBC|HighInBC]] (20 megabyte upload limit) * [--visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?vev1id=11656 Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography] * --visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/2433/land_shallow_topo_east.tif * --visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/2433/land_shallow_topo_west.tif |Date = image released 11. Feb. 2002 |Author = NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |Permission = Copyright information from --visibleearth.nasa.gov/useterms.php - ''With the exception of images produced by the SeaWiFS, QuickBird, and IKONOS instruments all images on the Visible Earth are governed by NASA's Terms of Use below. [...] For all non-private uses, NASA's Terms Of Use are as follows: 1. The imagery is free of licensing fees 2. NASA requires that they be provided a credit as the owners of the imagery [...]'' |other_versions = [[:Image:Whole world - land and oceans.jpg]] (smaller, kept because the large version will not load on many computers) }}

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Poccil 12:52, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Time of year?

I once saw a book that consisted of glossy high-res photos of the earth from space, with chapters on different continents, etc. It was a very large book (almost a metre when opened), and at the end it had an appendix on the whole earth through the seasons. There was one photo similar to the one here, taken in a January. Then another one taken in Feb, March, and so on, a month apart throughout a year.

What surprised me was how much difference there actually was between winter and summer. I knew the caps expanded in winter, shrunk in summer, etc, but it was still quite staggering to have the whole thing laid out before the eyes to compare.

So I guess the next logical step would be to answer the question “when was this picture(s) taken?” We could then hopefully go about getting one that was 6 months apart (ie Jan and July).

I'm curious

What projection is used? --Feministo (talk) 20:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I think I'm right when I say this is an equirectangular projection. See Image:Tissot indicatrix world map equirectangular proj.svg. Diti (talk to the penguin) 21:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)