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Satellite Images of Continents

Each continent is (partially) shown here as seen from a satellite. The images are a "patchwork" of several different satellite images, which explains the lack of clouds. They are all taken at the same hour (noon or close), so there are almost no shadows.

Africa - Large version
 
Asia - Large version
 
Australia - Large version
 
Europe - Large version
 
North America - Large version
 
South America - Large version
 
Antarctica - Large version
Images taken from
UNEP (2003), ISBN: 92-807-2272-5
Selected Satellite Images of Our Changing Environment.
Document available online as 13 MB PDF file:
http://www.na.unep.net/publications/selected/Selected.pdf