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Contrails Over the Gulf of California

The corridor between the United States and Mexico is a fairly busy one for air traffic—heavy enough to produce plenty of contrails, but not so much that they all blend together.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Contrails Over the Gulf of California.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen with image interpretation by David Duda/NASA LaRC and Patrick Minnis/NASA LaRC.

Published May 14, 2019
Data acquired May 5, 2019

Source:: Terra > MODIS