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A Cut in the Clouds
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Like a ship carving its way through the sea, the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands parted the clouds. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this natural-color image on February 2, 2017. The ripples in the clouds are known as gravity waves.
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Credit lineA Cut in the Clouds. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000133.
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