[SunkenCiv]

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[snoringbear]

In order to show a complete hemisphere wouldn’t the pic have to be shot directly above either the north or South Pole? I know, technically, any pic taken of any half of the globe would be of “a hemisphere”. However, our globe, longitudely, is not typically defined in terms of east/west.

[mikrofon]

I think the (last) article link to the animated GIF was broken in transcription ... Here's a smaller version: