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http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=987

What is this?

krakonfour wrote:What is this?

A thread necro.

Now now be nice...
(ahems)

What you are looking at is the 'flow' of low clouds parting around an island, most likely one with a very tall mountain.
Put your finger in a stream and you'll see similar "vortexing" It is just simple fluid dynamics. Except this is with clouds.

Crossroads Inc. wrote:Now now be nice...
(ahems)

What you are looking at is the 'flow' of low clouds parting around an island, most likely one with a very tall mountain.
Put your finger in a stream and you'll see similar "vortexing" It is just simple fluid dynamics. Except this is with clouds.

Ah. What about the blue/red colors on the second photo? An attempt at 3d?

Ah. What about the blue/red colors on the second photo? An attempt at 3d?

Looks like it. Either that or using different overlapping filters to view it...