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![Von Kármán Clouds Flow Off of Mexico’s Coast](/s3/2021-06/vonkarmaniodimagery2.gif)
GOES East viewed von Kármán clouds flowing around Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.
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![Earth from Orbit: von Kármán Vortices](/s3/2021-06/2021_05_13_vonKarmanVortices_Title_Still.png)
NOAA satellites captured von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island. These are vortex patterns in stratocumulus…
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![Von Kármán Vortices Form Off Guadalupe Island](/s3/migrated/20190514_von-karman-vortex.jpg)
A spiraling cloud pattern, known as a von Kármán vortex, formed off the west coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on…
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![NOAA-20 Sees von Kármán Vortices Near the Cape Verde Islands](/s3/migrated/Von-Karman-Voritices-20200110.png)
The NOAA-20 satellite captured this lovely image of a dual set of von Kármán vortices by the Cape Verde Islands (Republic of…
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![Von Kármán Vortices Make Swirling Cloud Patterns off Canary Islands](/s3/migrated/20200220-CanariaVKV.jpg)
GOES East spied spiral cloud eddies called von Kármán vortices off the Canary Islands on Feb. 20, 2020.
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Himawari-8 spies an island creating swirling cloud streets in the East China Sea.
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![Von Kármán Vortex off the Southern California Coast](/s3/migrated/2185v1_20180201-sanclemente.jpg)
A spiral cloud appears just off the southern California coast in this image seen by the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS…
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![Clouds](https://nesdis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/webp_large/s3/2023-05/NOAA-logo_16x9_NoBorder.png.webp?itok=qg3l7mLt)
Clouds form from water or ice that has evaporated from Earth’s surface, or from plants that give off water and oxygen as a…
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![2023 Satellite Imagery: A Year in Review](/s3/2024-01/2024_01_05_2023_A_Year_In_Review.png)
NOAA satellites see our planet from a unique and captivating perspective.
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![GOES-18 Goes West: Satellite Continues Post-Launch Testing to Prepare for Operations](/s3/2022-06/2022_06_14_GOES18GoesWest_STILL_NO_TEXT.png)
NOAA’s newest weather satellite, GOES-18, is now sending back data from its new post-launch testing position at 136.8…