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Earth Observation taken during the Expedition 36 mission
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ISS036-E-035663 (24 Aug. 2013) --- One of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this still image of unusual cloud patterns surrounding Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean (left center). These are the result of a ubiquitous occurrence in the motion of fluids—a vortex street, which is a linear chain of spiral eddies called von Karman vortices. Von Karman vortices are named after Theodore von Karman, a co-founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineEarth Observation taken during the Expedition 36 mission. NASA/JSC, 2013-08-24. Public domain. ID: iss036e035663.
