Paisley Cloud Street

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?

[ShavenYak]

What does the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known As Price have to say about this?

Re:Paisley?

[ShavenYak]

Umm, that's Prince, not Price. Should have used Preview, eh?

Re:Paisley?

[Sir Elton John]

I haven't talked with Prince in a while, but he was more known for purple than paisley.

I find the clouds charming and psychadelic...reminds me of London, 1966.

Re:Paisley?

[ShavenYak]

Then why did he name his recording studio Paisley Park, Reg?

Incidentally, thanks for the wonderful concert you gave in Birmingham (Alabama, not UK) last year.

holy shitsky

[tps12]

That's crazy. It reminds me of another bizarre cloud phenomenon [truthorfiction.com] (includes explanation). Googling for weird cloud picture [google.com] also turned up this [io.com], this [komotv.com], and this [komotv.com] (Gandalf was just outside the frame sparking up a deeb).

Yeah, clouds are awesome.

Prediciton

[EvilBastard]

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.

other NASA sites with images of earth

[Anonymous Coward]

you can find more images of earth at:

• 
  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!

[Tablizer]

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.