Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean - selected image
Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean - related image preview

720 x 720
JPEG

Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean - related image preview

6000 x 6000
6 MB - JPEG

Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean - related geotiff image preview placeholder

45 MB - GeoTIFF

Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean - related image preview

720 x 480
JPEG

Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean

Ships and islands contributed to an intricate cloud pattern over the northern Pacific Ocean in April 2013.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Land Atmosphere Near Real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Michon Scott with information from Steve Platnick, Goddard Space Flight Center.

Published May 5, 2013
Data acquired April 20, 2013

Source:
Terra > MODIS