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File:Africa at night (Cropped From Entire Earth Image).jpg

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English: Africa at night (Cropped From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earthlights_dmsp.jpg)
Date 23 October 2000
Source http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve//1438/land_lights_16384.tif
Author Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC.

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