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November 13, 2006
The image below is from the EROS image gallery--earth as art:
Von Karman Vortices, July 4, 2002, Landsat 7
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 encountered Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
It's very reminiscent of an abstract expressionist painting isn't it.
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