File:Africa (satellite image).jpg

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English: A composed satellite photograph of Africa.
Source The image is a crop (and jpeg encoding) of the 21600 x 10800 TIFF from [1]. Care was taken to include the Azores, Cape Verde, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands immediately East off Madagascar.
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Image extraction processThis file has an extracted image: Africa (satellite image) (cropped) Magreb.jpg.
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Cropped image: Sahara

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