Looking into the Karman Vortex
With amazing missions observing Mars, Venus and the Saturn system, itis all too easy to forget that the Earth has some pretty amazing features tosee too. Chris Brooke sent me a link to his blogpost about the 30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth. The images Chris uses were part of a NASA exhibitiontitled Earth As Art which showcases amazing landscape, seascape and atmospheric patterns seen by Landsat 7. I recognise a few of them but as always there are some new ones I haven'tseen before.

These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Landsat 7 WRS Path 6 Row 83, center: -33.18, -79.99 CREDIT: USGS/NASA
The Earth as Art site has more examples of pretty Karman Vortices.
Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Thursday 03rd Jul 2008 (19:14 BST) | Permalink