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Full Disk View of Africa Target Name:   Earth Spacecraft:   Galileo Produced by:   NASA/JPL Copyright:  Copyright Free Cross Reference:   PIA00076 Date Released:  1996-01-29 Related Document Earth Introduction Download Options Name Type Width x Height Size earth1.jpg JPEG 524 x 524 62K PIA00076.tif TIFF 800 x 800 494K This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters. Africa stretches from the center to the top of the picture with the Arabian Peninsula off to its right. The white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is at the bottom. This is a frame of the Galileo Earth spin movie, a 500-frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour period of Earth's rotation and atmospheric dynamics.

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