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  MODIS Land Group, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

This MODIS true color image is centered over North America with South America visible toward the bottom of the image and the snow and ice-covered Artic Circle at the top. The image is a composite of eight days of MODIS global coverage to remove cloud cover and sun glint effects, gathered during the last week in March 2000.

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