<p>The Blue Marble: Next Generation is a series of images that show the color of the Earth’s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution (500 meters/pixel) at a global scale. This image shows Africa from September 2004. 
</p><p>NASA image courtesy Reto Stöckli and Robert Simmon
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2005-10-12 21:21
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