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Unique looking clouds near equator in EPAC
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Wow
Wow - of course, the question is:
What the heck is it?
What caused it?
Should preparations be rushed to completion?
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What the heck is it?
What caused it?
Should preparations be rushed to completion?
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Steve Cosby
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Waaaaaaaaaay weird! 
Kind of like when you were a kid and played "what shape do you see in the clouds?" Uhm....I see mountains! Uh.....those stars they make out of icing on a cake....No wait...it's lichen! (Not that I knew what lichen was as a kid).
Anyway...I don't think I'd of guessed those were cloud formations if someone just showed me that image and said "what is this?".
How big are those things? I don't see anything to use as a point of reference.
Are they still there? I couldn't figure out how to refresh that image.
Kind of like when you were a kid and played "what shape do you see in the clouds?" Uhm....I see mountains! Uh.....those stars they make out of icing on a cake....No wait...it's lichen! (Not that I knew what lichen was as a kid).
Anyway...I don't think I'd of guessed those were cloud formations if someone just showed me that image and said "what is this?".
How big are those things? I don't see anything to use as a point of reference.
Are they still there? I couldn't figure out how to refresh that image.
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From looking at things, they are about 3/4 the size of Mississippi.LCfromFL wrote:How big are those things?
If you look on the left side of the screen, you can see a red box on the globe. That red box represents the image.LCfromFL wrote:I don't see anything to use as a point of reference.
That image before was from the MODIS Terra Satellite. Here's an image from the MODIS Aqua Satellite that passed a few hours later: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/real ... 00.1km.jpgLCfromFL wrote:Are they still there?
Unfortunately, this images aren't refreshable. Unlike GOES satellites that hover way up in the atmosphere on a fixed position, MODIS satellites are low-flying and are polar-orbiting. They are continuously on the move, scanning the globe from pole to pole. Each location on Earth will receive two passes from each satellite (Terra and Aqua) daily, making four passes total. Of course, now that it's nighttime there, no imagery will be available until morning.LCfromFL wrote:I couldn't figure out how to refresh that image.
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