Earth from Space: Swirling cloud art

This false-colour Envisat image highlights a unique cloud formation, created by ?Von Karman vortices?, south of the Canary Island archipelago, some 95 km from the northwest coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM2UOPK2AG_FeatureWeek_0.html

Time: 11. Jun. 2010

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: cloud, from