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Description	English: Satellite image of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in April 2002. Français : Image satellite de l'île de Grande-Bretagne et de l' Irlande du Nord.
Date	6 April 2002
Source	Cropped from: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3065
Author	Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
File change date and time	14:29, 5 January 2012
Colour space	Uncalibrated
Image height	2,781 px
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Date and time of digitizing	15:23, 5 January 2012
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