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An
orthographic projection
of the
Eastern Hemisphere
from 30W–150E, based on
NASA
's
The Blue Marble
. The orthographic projection, a
map projection
used in
cartography
, depicts a
hemisphere
of the
globe
as it appears from
outer space
, where the
horizon
is a
great circle
. It is a
perspective (or azimuthal) projection
, in which the
sphere
is projected onto a
tangent plane
or secant plane with parallel rays, as if seen from an infinite distance. The shapes and areas are
distorted
, particularly near the edges.
Map:
Strebe
, using Geocart
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