Aleutian Von Karman Vortices

Credit: Image Credit: USGS/NASA, Posted on: Monday, 9 August 2004, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

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.

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