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Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean

Ships and islands contributed to an intricate cloud pattern over the northern Pacific Ocean in April 2013.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near Real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Michon Scott with information from Steve Platnick, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published May 5, 2013
Data acquired April 20, 2013

Source:: Terra > MODIS