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Peculiar Cloud Over the Caspian

A strange cloud exhibiting a cartoonish shape has a simple meteorological explanation.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Peculiar Cloud Over the Caspian.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 16, 2022
Data acquired May 28, 2022

Source:: Terra > MODIS