Ship tracks off Chile, South Pacific Ocean

The huge expanse of the Pacific Ocean gives rise to myriad cloud forms. In these true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images to very different cloud patterns are seen. One shows ship tracks (clouds that form around the emissions or exhaust from ships); the other shows a large stratocumulus cloud deck.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published September 15, 2002
Data acquired August 15 - 15, 2002

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