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Nardo Ring, Italy
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Nardo Ring, Italy

The Nardò Ring is a striking visual feature from space, and astronauts have photographed it several times. The Ring is a race car test track; it is 12.5 kilometers long and steeply banked to reduce the amount of active steering needed by drivers. Although it is a perfect circle, it appears oval in this photograph. This distortion is because the astronaut’s viewing angle was 35 degrees, looking back along the orbit track to the southwest from the International Space Station’s window.

Published Sep 10, 2007

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A Glorious View
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A Glorious View

The Terra satellite captured a rainbow-like optical phenomenon called a glory over the Pacific Ocean. Water droplets within clouds scatter light to produce the effect.

Published Jun 27, 2012

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Annular Eclipse over the Pacific Ocean
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Annular Eclipse over the Pacific Ocean

Acquired during the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012, this natural-color image shows the Moon’s shadow over the northern Pacific Ocean.

Published May 22, 2012

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Sunglint and Clouds off Western South America
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Sunglint and Clouds off Western South America

The setting sun highlights cloud patterns—as well as the Pacific Ocean surface itself—in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station.

Published May 28, 2012

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The Nardo Ring
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The Nardo Ring

Published Apr 19, 2008

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The Solar Ring of Fire
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The Solar Ring of Fire

Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.

Published Mar 2, 2017

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Canary Islands Kick Up Von Kármán Vortices
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Canary Islands Kick Up Von Kármán Vortices

Known as von Kármán vortices, the remarkable curling patterns can form nearly anywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by an object.

Published Jun 7, 2015

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O, What a Cloud
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O, What a Cloud

An open-celled cloud over the Pacific Ocean had a shape reminiscent of a certain circular letter of the alphabet.

Published Sep 27, 2014

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Sharp Line in the Clouds
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Sharp Line in the Clouds

Dry air surging off the western coast of Africa ran into a wall of moist air over the Atlantic, creating a distinctive line in a marine cloud layer.

Published Feb 28, 2013

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Von Karman Vortices off Chile
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Von Karman Vortices off Chile

Clouds, winds, and volcanic islands collaborated on giant paisley patters over the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

Published Feb 5, 2013

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Cloudy Curls
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Cloudy Curls

Von Kármán vortices make another appearance near the Canary Islands.

Published Jul 11, 2020

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Love is in the Air
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Love is in the Air

This Valentine in the sky is the visible expression of fluid dynamics at work.

Published Feb 14, 2019

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Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean
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Ship Tracks and Vortices over the North Pacific Ocean

Ships and islands contributed to an intricate cloud pattern over the northern Pacific Ocean in April 2013.

Published May 5, 2013

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Glory, Vortex Street off Baja California
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Glory, Vortex Street off Baja California

In this image, the swirling clouds known as vortex streets appear along the left edge of the image, stretching southward from Isla Guadalupe. Southeast of the vortex street, a glory, which resembles a rainbow, hovers above the cloud cover. The glory is faint but large, 200 to 300 kilometers long, along a north-south orientation.

Published Jun 22, 2007

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