< STS069-730-59 >

Browse image
Resolutions offered for this image:
5700 x 5900 pixels 500 x 518 pixels 640 x 480 pixels 512 x 512 pixels
Cloud masks available for this image:

Spacecraft nadir point: 28.3° N, 120.7° W

Photo center point: 28.0° N, 117.5° W

Photo center point by machine learning:

Nadir to Photo Center: East

Spacecraft Altitude: 199 nautical miles (369km)
Click for a map
Width Height Annotated Cropped Purpose Links
5700 pixels 5900 pixels No No Download Image
Download Color Calibration Image for this Image
500 pixels 518 pixels No No Download Image
Download Color Calibration Image for this Image
640 pixels 480 pixels No No Download Image
512 pixels 512 pixels Yes No Download Image
Other options available:
Download Packaged File
Download a Google Earth KML for this Image
View photo footprint information
No GeoTIFF is available for this photo.
Image Caption: The small islands off the west of California are the breeding grounds
for some the most picture perfect weather images. In these two
photographs, stable atmospheric status clouds are being moved into
circular patterns by the light southeasterly winds that have been
disrupted by the islands. As wind moves around solid objects small
vortices, call Von Karmen vortices, form and the clouds are moved
around by the winds creating this visual display of wind flow.