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Paisley Cloud Street

Posted by timothy on from the all-interesting-fronts-are-vorticially-fractal dept.

EccentricAnomaly writes: "NASA has photographed a 186 mile paisley pattern in clouds over the arctic. This feature, a cloud street, is caused by vortices shed by wind flowing around a volcano on the island of Jan Mayen. This is a much larger scale version of the vortices that you sometimes see coming off of airplane wings (or in the opening credits to Star Trek Voyager). I wonder how long before these pictures are made into a tie..."

8 comments

  1. Paisley? by ShavenYak · · Score: 2

    What does the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Price have to say about this?

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    1. Re:Paisley? by ShavenYak · · Score: 2

      Umm, that's Prince, not Price. Should have used Preview, eh?

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    2. Re:Paisley? by Sir+Elton+John · · Score: 1
      I haven't talked with Prince in a while, but he was more known for purple than paisley.

      I find the clouds charming and psychadelic...reminds me of London, 1966.

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    3. Re:Paisley? by ShavenYak · · Score: 2

      Then why did he name his recording studio Paisley Park, Reg?

      Incidentally, thanks for the wonderful concert you gave in Birmingham (Alabama, not UK) last year.

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  2. holy shitsky by tps12 · · Score: 4, Informative
    That's crazy. It reminds me of another bizarre cloud phenomenon (includes explanation). Googling for weird cloud picture also turned up this, this, and this (Gandalf was just outside the frame sparking up a deeb).

    Yeah, clouds are awesome.

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  3. Prediciton by EvilBastard · · Score: 2, Funny

    Richard Hoagland issues this picture as proof that NASA is testing it's Standard Issue Big Gun in Antartica where no-one is going to notice, and the black marks are where it's been fired.

    Either that, or there's weird pillars in Antartica that NO-ONE HAS EVER NOTICED BECAUSE IT'S ALL BEING COVERED UP BY THE 19.5 DEGREE SOCIETY.

    Neat picture though. Thanks.

  4. other NASA sites with images of earth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    you can find more images of earth at:

    Gotta love NASA Earth Science :-)
  5. Holy Jupiter, Batman! by Tablizer · · Score: 2


    It looks very similar to many of Jupiter's cloud patterns.

    Too bad the Galelio probe had bandwidth problems, otherwise we would have had thousands of close-ups of Jupiter with patterns just like this, including time-lasped movies.

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