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Description	English: This color image of the Earth was taken by the Galileo spacecraft on December 11 as it departed on its 3-year flight to Jupiter, about 2 1/2 days after the second Earth flyby. The distance to Earth is about 1.9 million kilometers (1.2 million miles). Antarctica is visible at the bottom of the image, and dawn is rising over the Pacific Ocean.
Date	8 February 1996 (taken in 1990)
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00232 (image link)
Author	NASA/JPL

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