Original Caption Released with Image:
This color image of the Earth was obtained by Galileo at about 6:10 a.m.
Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3
million miles from the planet during the first of two Earth flybys on its way
to Jupiter. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and
violet filters. South America is near the center of the picture, and the
white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below. Picturesque weather fronts are
visible in the South Atlantic, lower right. This is the first 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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