Satellite images of continents
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Each continent is (partially) shown here as seen from a satellite. The images are a "patchwork" of several different satellite images, which explains the lack of clouds. They are all taken at the same hour (noon or close), so there are almost no shadows.
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Images taken from UNEP (2003), ISBN 92-807-2272-5 Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment.
Except for the Antarctica and Africa images which are from http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11656
Document available online as 13 MB PDF file: http://www.na.unep.net/publications/selected/Selected.pdfsl:satelitske slike celin