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!!!Satellite image of the globe 

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This "blue marble" image of the globe merges data from multiple satellite missions (not all collected at the same time). 

The focus in this view is the Indian Ocean and its surrounding land masses. Notice the city lights on the night side of the globe, in Japan in the north and in eastern Australia in the south.