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PIA00076: Earth - Full Disk View of Africa
This color image of the Earth was obtained by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in Dec. 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. Africa stretches from the center to the top of the picture with the Arabian Peninsula off to its right.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Galileo 
 Spacecraft:  Galileo Orbiter
 Instrument:  Solid-State Imaging 
 Product Size:  800 x 800 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P37382  
 Addition Date:  1996-01-29 
 Primary Data Set:  Galileo EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00076.tif (506.5 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00076.jpg (34.9 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-01-29