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Nothing I can say can improve on this presentation of Clouds as seen from the top.... Clouds are cool.
WIRED SCIENCE News for Your Neurons
Weird Clouds Look Even Better From Space
By Betsy Mason May 12, 2010 | Source HERE
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gallery-clouds/#ixzz0o0Hyaf5i
EXCERPT:
Ship Tracks, Pacific Ocean
"The maze of cloud streams in this image is the result of exhaust from ship engines. The clouds form when water vapor condenses onto particles in the exhaust, which act as seeds for the clouds. The ship tracks are brighter than the other clouds in the image, because they are made of more plentiful, smaller particles.
The image above was taken in March 2009 over the Pacific Ocean south of Alaska by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite. The tracks below were captured by Terra in the same area in April 2002. Below that is an image of ship tracks in the Pacific Ocean near the northwest coast of North America taken by the Aqua satellite in January 2008.
Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/gallery-clouds/all/1#ixzz0o0JfdaFM "
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