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Wave Clouds over Ireland
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Visualization Date 2003-12-18 Clouds ripple over Ireland and Scotland in a wave pattern, similar to the pattern of waves along a seashore. The similarity is not coincidental — the atmosphere behaves like a fluid, so when it encounters an obstacle, it must move around it. This movement forms a wave, and the wave movement can continue for long distances. In this case, the waves were caused by the air moving over and around the mountains of Scotland and Ireland.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineWave Clouds over Ireland. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002120.
