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Hole Punch Clouds over West Virginia

Cold winter conditions set the stage for these unusual clouds that can form due to airplane traffic.


NASA image by Rob Simmon using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek with image interpretation courtesy Andrew Heymsfield.

Published December 28, 2010
Data acquired December 11, 2009

Source:
Landsat 5 > TM