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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. 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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  2. 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 :-)