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The satellite image collected by NASA in 2012 shows two spectacular weather phenomena over the Pacific Ocean. © Nasa/Terra/Modis/Jeff Schmaltz
There weather reportweather report may be surprising from the sky, but sometimes even more so from space. A satellite image immortalized a rather strange phenomenon in 2012, as reported by the site Live ScienceTwo luminous streaks resembling a double rainbow, as well as three whirlpools (two very clearly visible and one more faint) appeared near Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean, near Mexico.
It is not actually a rainbow, but rather “glory”, an optical phenomenon often seen from airplanes, linked to the refractionrefraction sun rays on the water droplets that make up the cloudcloud. There is actually only one glory, about 480 kilometers long, which consists of two multi-colored edges.
The glory is a circle, except that the perpendicular scan of the satellite resulted in this image of glory with parallel edges. whirlwindswhirlwinds Next to them are Von Kármán vortices, which are caused by the separationseparation atmospheric currents around an object, such as an island or a mountain peak. The fact that these two weather phenomena were photographed at the same time next to each other is pure coincidence!
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