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Cloud vortices off Heard Island, south Indian Ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)...
Cloud vortices off Heard Island, south Indian Ocean. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)...
NASA image acquired August 14, 2010 at 14:55 UTC Cloud vortices off Madeira and Canary Islands Satellite: Aqua...
STS040-75-003 (5-14 June 1991) --- This image shows several of the Canary Islands, located in the North Atlantic...
Stable, south flowing air over the western Pacific Ocean (26.0N, 131.0E) is disturbed by islands south of Korea,...
Two bright vortices roll across the cloud-lined face of Saturn, where winds howl at high speeds never experienced on...
Bright, high altitude clouds, like those imaged here, often appear more filamentary or streak-like than clouds...
S65-63150 (16 Dec. 1965) --- Eddies in stratocumulus clouds over the Canary Islands as seen from the Gemini-6...
ISS015-E-09199 (23 May 2007) --- Von Karman cloud vortices near the Aleutian Islands are featured in this image...
STS083-749-079 (4-8 April 1997) --- Cloud wake covers the Leeward Islands. Like a ship making a wake in the water,...
ISS002-E-7710 (21 June 2001) --- Commonly visible cloud vortices hover in the area of the Canary Islands off the...
S125-E-007900 (16 May 2009) --- A nadir view of cloud vortices in the area of the Canary Islands in the North...
SL4-140-4111 (14 Jan. 1974) --- The Aleutian Islands area of Alaska, as photographed from the Skylab space station...
P-21742 BW Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyager 2 image shows the region of Jupiter...
P-21742 C Range: 6 million kilometers (3.72 million miles) This Voyager 2 image shows the region of Jupiter...
ISS040-E-016570 (21 June 2014) --- From an altitude of 223 nautical miles, one of the Expedition 40 crew members on...
ISS040-E-016569 (21 June 2014) --- From an altitude of 223 nautical miles, one of the Expedition 40 crew members on...
ISS036-E-035663 (24 Aug. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station...
ISS030-E-254259 (22 April 2012) --- Cloud vortices off the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja California were captured...
STS080-752-011 (19 Nov.-7 Dec. 1996) --- This view, photographed by one the crewmembers aboard the Earth-orbiting...
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter's northern hemisphere. NASA's Juno...
NASA image acquired September 15, 1999 This Landsat 7 image of clouds off the Chilean coast near the Juan Fernandez...
STS100-710-182 (19 April-1 May 2001) --- Easily recognizable in this STS-100 70mm frame are phenomena known as the...
ISS024-E-014559 (14 Sept. 2010) --- Hurricane Igor is featured in this Sept. 14 image photographed by an Expedition...