Comments on: November Puzzler

By: i-max

i-max — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:04:36 +0000

On the morning of March 29, 1987, the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite captured this scene of fog lingering in valley bottoms of Argentina’s Lake District.

By: i-max

i-max — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:07:56 +0000

FOG IN ARGENTINA’S LAKE DISTRICT

By: Sabareesh SS

Sabareesh SS — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:52:34 +0000

I think it may be South Pole Antartica Regions..

By: Abeer Al Subaie

Abeer Al Subaie — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 20:15:12 +0000

Himalayas

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:37:33 +0000

This looks like salt. The sea air has settled on top of this range and caused a salt bed. When you look at Okley,Ks., (salt beds), where you can find fossiles. Maybe???

By: Mehdy Ashoury

Mehdy Ashoury — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:43:09 +0000

light reflected off the water surface.

By: Michael Osborn

Michael Osborn — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:19:38 +0000

oh yeah… fog in the stream valleys…

By: Michael Osborn

Michael Osborn — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:18:36 +0000

I think its a layer of limestone or carbonate rock that has been weathered and dissected. Steep slopes show rock slides and scars appear white. The lakes fit in with limestone being dissolved. Streams appear to be draining from right to left – a bit odd that they are making a circular draining pattern but maybe the upper stream captured the lower stream on the far right. The picture was taken in late morning in the middle of spring. located 30-35 degress away form the equator. Maybe South America/Argentina region

By: Terri Green

Terri Green — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:17:22 +0000

By: jms

jms — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:39:41 +0000

Definitely not snow or rime/frozen fog. Not enough snow cover in the higher mountains, and the snow on all but the highest peak (bottom left) appears dirty and old. The valley cover is far to “thick” to be resultant from frozen fog. Rime would have been deposited during a storm cycle, which wouldn’t have left the mountaintops clear.

It’s far to white to be smoke from a fire, though the spot in the upper left could be a thermally mapped hot spot. I’d say they are definitely clouds due to the “puffiness” particularly mid canyon. There clearly is no wind, so an inversion, or simply low, trapped cloud bank is my best explanation.

Where? Very late season temperate zone mountain range, or tropical range. Terrain appears too barren to be located continentally windward slope of a costal or near inland mountain range such as the Cascades.

The apparent extensiveness of the range makes me think Asia. But it could certainly be an isolated spot anywhere from the Canadian Rockies, through the Andes. Gotta fire up that Google Earth pattern match.