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Description	Credit(s): NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team Source: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery-detail.asp?name=Richat ”The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated. We ask that NASA's Earth Observatory be given credit for its original materials.”
Date	2006-04-05 (first version); 2006-04-05 (last version)
Source	Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is/was here.
Author	Original uploader was Brian0918 at en.wikipedia
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File change date and time	08:42, 5 April 2006
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Image height	3,130 px
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Date and time of digitizing	04:37, 5 April 2006
Date metadata was last modified	04:42, 5 April 2006

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