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Boffins have used 7,000 images from Europe's Sentinel-2A Earth-watching satellite to construct a fine mosaic of Africa, shown entirely cloud-free in all its continental glory. The Sentinel 2-A mosaic of Africa Clear skies over Africa Most of the images - totalling 32 TB of data - were snapped between December 2015 and …

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  1. caffeine addict

    The urge to colour match the image edges is strong.

    Please, someone do it before the weekend, or I'll end up trying to make my knackered laptop try and edit an entire continent in one go...

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    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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      Can you make the edges more crinkly? I do like Fiords!

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  2. thegeorge

    I can see clearly now

    the rain is gone...

    (And the picture is terrific. Well done, boffins.)

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    1. Swarthy
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      Re: I can see clearly now

      There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

      I bless the rains down in Africa

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  3. Annihilator

    "I blinked, can we take it again please?"

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  4. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

    Poor old Cape town...

    Buried under a pile of black splodge.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Poor old Cape town...

      Black splodge! That's the new hyper-umbrella -just ready for the rains last night

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  5. Dabooka
    Coat

    Cloud free you say?

    Just confirms Toto haven't a clue what they're talking about

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    1. Sceptic Tank Silver badge
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      Re: Cloud free you say?

      I would say that video is pretty spot-on: the electricity is probably supplied by Eskom - that is why everybody is reading by the feeble light of paraffin lamps. Burning libraries, schools, auditoriums, etc. is also very accurate.

      http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/vuwani-teachers-too-scared-to-go-back-to-work-20160519

      http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/protesting-fort-hare-students-set-fire-to-campus-building-reports-20160518

      http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/r1m-in-damage-as-students-torch-limpopo-college-20160518

      Etc., etc.

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  6. Bob Wheeler
    Joke

    I can ....

    See my house from here...

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  7. Alister

    Nice work.

    Remind me, who did the coastline - I thought for a moment I could see fiords...

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  8. Paul Renault

    There's no satellite photo in tonight's forecast...

    ..somebody moved!

    - Hippy Dippy Weather man, AKA George Carlin.

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  9. TheTor
    Alien

    Extraterrestrial?

    Anyone know what the small blue lights in a small line in the middle of the map are?

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    1. Mark 85
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      Re: Extraterrestrial?

      Landing lights for the incoming B-Ark.

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  10. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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    32 TB of data

    Anyone know where I can download the original unscaled image?

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