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Published online 22 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/060220-14

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Satellite tests its prowess by focusing on Mount Fuji

Japanese Daichi satellite constructs stunning 3-D images.

Japan's sacred Mount Fuji towers here above the towns and rivers of the Kofu basin in one of the first images obtained by the Daichi Earth-observing satellite.

Launched on 24 January by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Daichi can deliver high-resolution, three-dimensional images of Earth's surface.

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