Paisley Cloud Street 8
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..."
Paisley? (Score:2)
Re:Paisley? (Score:2)
Re:Paisley? (Score:1)
I find the clouds charming and psychadelic...reminds me of London, 1966.
Re:Paisley? (Score:2)
Incidentally, thanks for the wonderful concert you gave in Birmingham (Alabama, not UK) last year.
holy shitsky (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, clouds are awesome.
Prediciton (Score:2, Funny)
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.
other NASA sites with images of earth (Score:1, Informative)
Visible Earth [nasa.gov]
Earth Observatory [nasa.gov]
EO Natural Hazards [nasa.gov]
Ever popular Blue Marble [nasa.gov]
Gotta love NASA Earth Science
Holy Jupiter, Batman! (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.