File:Satellite image of France in August 2002.jpg

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Description	English: Satellite image of France acquired August 14, 2002, by the Terra satellite. An unusually cloud-free France shows green and tan in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image acquired August 14, 2002, by the Terra satellite. The great city of Paris is visible in the upper center of the image as a gray smudge against the landscape, and is even clearer in the higher resolutions of this image. To the north, clouds mostly obscure the English Channel, but the Bay of Biscay to the west is clear, as is the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The northernmost portion of Spain is clearly visible at the bottom of the image, and is separated from France by the Pyrenees Mountain Range. Suomi: Satelliittikuva Ranskasta elokuussa 2002
Date	14 August 2002
Source	Slightly cropped image. Original taken from NASA's Visible Earth: [1]. Credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Author	Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:50, 15 January 2008		5,200 × 4,000 (3.75 MB)	Kyle the hacker	uncropped, better definited version
	12:30, 8 March 2005		3,930 × 3,965 (2.82 MB)	Hautala	{{PD-USGov-NASA}} Satellite image of France in August 2002. Slightly cropped image. Original taken from NASA's Visible Earth, http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4202 .

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