Cropped version of "Visible Earth: The Blue Marble: Land Surface, Ocean Color and Sea Ice", then stretched 150% vertically by me User:Anameofmyveryown, creating a stretched equidistant cylindrical projection map of Scotland from -8W to 0E, 54.5N to 61N, suitable for use as a locator map of Scotland.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow water, clouds). Enhancements by Robert Simmon (ocean color, compositing, 3D globes, animation). Data and technical support: MODIS Land Group; MODIS Science Data Support Team; MODIS Atmosphere Group; MODIS Ocean Group Additional data: USGS EROS Data Center (topography); USGS Terrestrial Remote Sensing Flagstaff Field Center (Antarctica); Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (city lights).
License:
For all non-private uses, the terms of use are as follows:
The imagery is free of licensing fees
NASA requires that they be provided a credit as the owners of the imagery
Beyond that, there are two requests by the Visible Earth team:
We request that you provide a credit for the Visible Earth, as the location where you obtained the imagery, with a URL if possible (visibleearth.nasa.gov/)
We further request that you provide a credit to the Earth Observatory team that developed the imagery, again with a URL if permitting (earthobservatory.nasa.gov/)
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
