Spiraling Cloud Patterns Over Guadalupe Island
Spiraling Cloud Patterns Over Guadalupe Island
On May 24, 2017, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured a natural-color image of long, spiraling cloud patterns, or « von Kármán vortices, » on the lee side of Guadalupe Island. The volcanic island rises from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.