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From: prevost@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Michael Prevost)
Subject: Re: GeoSphere Image
Message-ID: <1993Apr28.144121.5743@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 14:41:21 GMT
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rmalayte@grumpy.helios.nd.edu (ryan malayter) writes:

>Article 31 of alt.graphics:
>Newsgroups: alt.graphics
>Path: news.nd.edu!moliere!rmalayte
>From: rmalayte@moliere.helios.nd.edu (ryan malayter)
>Subject: GeoSphere images via ftp?
>Message-ID: <1993Apr26.213648.26856@news.nd.edu>
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>Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 21:36:48 GMT

>Does anyone know if a digitized version of the GeoSphere image is
>available via ftp?  For those of you who don't know, it is a composite
>photograph of the entire earth, with cloudcover removed.  I just think
>it's really cool.  It was created with government funds and sattelites
>as a research project, so I would assume it's in the public domain.

This image is copyrighted. Early in another news group it was being
used as a texture map in a planet orbiting simulation. That program
was being freely distributed but the texture map picture for the 
earth had to be pulled because of copyright infringement issues. 

mp....

-- 
Michael Prevost
Sterling Software
moffett Field Ca.
prevost@eos.arc.nasa.gov
