Ex-cell-ent Clouds off Chile’s Coast

Satellites have exposed the impressive coverage of marine stratocumulus clouds as well as their compelling shapes and patterns.

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NASA Earth Observatory image and video by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and GOES 17 data from NOAA and the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Story by Hannah Richter, with information from Terence Kubar (NASA JPL).

Published February 3, 2023
Data acquired August 25, 2022

Sources:

GOES > ABI

Terra > MODIS