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Icosahedron Globe
2004
This relief image is generated from a digital data base of land and sea-floor
elevations. Illumination of the topography is from the west. Ocean bathymetry
was resampled from the Smith and Sandwell, 2-minute* gridded ocean depths
derived from satellite altimetry of the sea surface between 64° N and 72° S,
from IBCAO bathymetry north of 64° N; and from US Navy 5-minute grids
south of 72° S. Land elevations are derived primarily from 30-second (1/2
minute) gridded data collected from various sources by the CEOS, Global
Land One-kilometer Base Elevation Project (GLOBE).
*( 1 minute of latitude = 1 nautical mile, or 1.852 km.)

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