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Summary
DescriptionSouth America - Blue Marble orthographic.jpg
English: South America. An orthographic projection of NASA's Blue Marble data set (1 km resolution global satellite composite). Image generated by custom Python code with orthographic projection formulas from
MathWorld.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Davepape. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: Davepape grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
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