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Making Waves in the Sky off of Africa

The rise and fall of colliding air columns can make cloud patterns—gravity waves—similar to a boat’s wake.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Pola Lem.

Published July 14, 2016
Data acquired June 26, 2016

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Terra > MODIS