As air flows over and around objects in its path, spiraling eddies, known as Von Karman
vortices, may form. The vortices in this image were created when prevailing winds
sweeping east across the northern Pacific Ocean ecountered Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s
Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor.
Image provided by the
USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems
Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series