Original Caption Released with Image:
This color image of the Earth was obtained by the Galileo spacecraft on Dec.
11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.5 million miles from the Earth. The
color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters.
India is near the top of the picture, and Australia is to the right of center.
The white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below. Picturesque weather fronts
are visible in the South Pacific, lower right. This is a frame of the Galileo
Earth spin movie, a 500-frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour
period of Earth's rotation and atmospheric dynamics.
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