Cloud Party in the Pacific

Two eye-catching cloud types—flower-shaped actinoform and spiraling von Kármán vortices—popped up off the coast of Chile in March.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Michael Garay (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

Published March 18, 2022
Data acquired March 11, 2022

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NOAA-20 > VIIRS