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Ship Tracks off British Columbia

They may look like airplane contrails, but the streaky clouds shown in this photo-like image formed around the exhaust left in the wake of ships traveling along the northwest coast of North America.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published January 26, 2008
Data acquired January 21, 2008

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Aqua > MODIS