A Sun Glint on Earth (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A Sun Glint on Earth

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A sun glint on Earth is captured (center of the black circle) in this image taken by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft as it looked at the north pole. The reddish area is North America, and the glint is coming from a body of water in California.

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Don Lindler, Sigma Space Corporation/GSFC

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