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A Ridge with a Cloud on Top

In China’s Sichuan Basin, moist air forced upward by narrow ridges spurred the formation of lines of clouds.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published December 3, 2013
Data acquired September 24, 2011

Source:
EO-1 > ALI