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

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Description	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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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	ACD Systems Digital Imaging
File change date and time	01:37, 12 October 2012
Y and C positioning	Centered
Meaning of each component	Y Cb Cr does not exist
DateTime subseconds	57
Exif version	2.2
Supported Flashpix version	1
Image height	16,384 px
Image width	8,192 px
Date and time of digitizing	23:13, 6 March 2012
Date metadata was last modified	23:18, 6 March 2012

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