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Caving Clouds

Airplanes passing through supercooled water droplets cause cavum, or hole-punch clouds.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Caving Clouds.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 24, 2024
Data acquired December 2, 2024

Source:: Landsat 9 > OLI-2