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A friend passed this along to me today, NASA’s most accurate image of earth to date, considering the large size and awesomeness of the subject, I was pretty excited to check it out and make it my latest desktop image.

What bugged me was that I found a few clear instances of cloning – in an image that is supposed to be the most accurate representation of Earth, ever.

Look:

Look in the southern hemisphere

Here’s a detailed close-up:

A close-up of the shopping

Here we see a few cloud patterns that are clearly reproduced. It’s unlikely that these structures would be preserved so closely as the satellite moved across the skies and the weather shifted. There appear to be more discrepancies further west and even near the US, but I’ve proven my point. See what you can find.

*edit* I guess I should state that the above images were edited by me to show the problem areas. Just click on the original link to see what the original looks like.