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On July 15, 2022, a Twitter user posted an image that has since been widely viewed, allegedly showing Antarctica as photographed from space. The tweet (archived here) is captioned, Antarctica seen from space! and contains a stunning image of an icy surface against a deep blue ocean: The caption on the tweet may lead some viewers to believe that it's an actual photograph of Antarctica as taken from a space craft, but it is not. According to NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, the image was digitally created and released publicly in 2007 using an amalgamation of satellite data. Here is how NASA described the image's creation: The image can be found on NASA's website with the caption, This image shows a view of the Earth on September 21, 2005 with the full Antarctic region visible.
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