Data acquired September 20, 2013
720 x 480
JPEG

Data acquired September 20, 2013
4400 x 5600
4 MB - JPEG

Data acquired September 20, 2013
37 MB - GeoTIFF

Data acquired September 20, 2013
2 KB - KML/KMZ

720 x 480
JPEG

High Clouds Over South America

Strong winds and the Andes Mountains clashed, resulting in a rare view of a bank of high cirrus clouds over South America.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story High Clouds Over South America.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek with interpretation by Kerry Meyer.

Published November 3, 2013
Data acquired September 20, 2013