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Clouds Hover Over the Alaska Peninsula

Winds interacted with mountainous terrain to produce long, sharp-edged standing wave clouds.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published April 14, 2025
Data acquired April 7, 2025

Sources:
NOAA-20 > VIIRS
NOAA-21 > VIIRS
Suomi NPP > VIIRS