Image:Antarctica 6400px from Blue Marble.jpg

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Summary

Description

Antarctica. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). "MODIS observations of polar sea ice were combined with observations of Antarctica made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s AVHRR sensor—the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer." Image was generated using a custom C program for handling the Blue Marble files, with orthographic projection formulas from MathWorld .
Source

Blue Marble data: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?vev1id=11656
Date

5 October 2006
Author

Dave Pape
Permission

PD
Other versions Image:Antarctica satellite globe.jpg Image:Antarctica satellite orthographic.jpg

Note: this image has been manually modified (after the ortho projection of the source data), to fill in an area of black pixels in the ocean, in the upper right quadrant. The black pixels are presumed to be due to missing data in the land/sea mask used in making the original Blue Marble image.

Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

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