Ship-wave-shaped wave clouds induced by Aleutian Islands

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Clouds cover this true-color Terra MODIS image of the Bering Sea (top), Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and the northern Pacific Ocean (bottom). As the clouds passed over the Islands, the islands forced the air to moved around them, and consequently caused wakes to form in the clouds, much like those that would form from a ship’s passage through water. This image was acquired September 6, 2002.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-10-02