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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..."

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  1. 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.