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English: Satellite image of France acquired August 14, 2002, by the Terra satellite.
An unusually cloud-free France shows green and tan in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image acquired August 14, 2002, by the Terra satellite. The great city of Paris is visible in the upper center of the image as a gray smudge against the landscape, and is even clearer in the higher resolutions of this image.
To the north, clouds mostly obscure the English Channel, but the Bay of Biscay to the west is clear, as is the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The northernmost portion of Spain is clearly visible at the bottom of the image, and is separated from France by the Pyrenees Mountain Range.
Suomi: Satelliittikuva Ranskasta elokuussa 2002
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Source Slightly cropped image. Original taken from NASA's Visible Earth: [1].
Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Author Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current10:50, 15 January 2008Thumbnail for version as of 10:50, 15 January 20085,200 × 4,000 (3.75 MB)Kyle the hacker (talk | contribs)uncropped, better definited version
12:30, 8 March 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:30, 8 March 20053,930 × 3,965 (2.82 MB)Hautala (talk | contribs){{PD-USGov-NASA}} Satellite image of France in August 2002. Slightly cropped image. Original taken from NASA's Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4202 .

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