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Description	English: Africa at night (Cropped From http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earthlights_dmsp.jpg)
Date	23 October 2000
Source	http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ve//1438/land_lights_16384.tif
Author	Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC.

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