Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Dungeon Bits - A Vortex Street in the Clouds


Landsat 7 Reveals Large-scale Fractal Motion of Clouds

This Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez Islands (also known as the Robinson Crusoe Islands) on September 15, 1999, shows a unique pattern called a “von Karman vortex street.”

Thanks to Earth Observatory.

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