S65-63149 Cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth.jpg

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Description	English: Gemini 6 photograph of a stratocumulus cloud vortex over the Canary Islands on Earth. Tenerife is at the upper left. These vortices are formed when northeast winds (north is up) blow over the islands and are swirled into chains of eddies. The center eddy in this image is 100 km from Tenerife and the eye is 21 km wide. (Gemini 6A, S65-63149) Date/Time (UT): 1965-12-16 T 10:46 Distance/Range (km): 289 Central Latitude/Longitude (deg): N/A Orbit(s): 14
Date	16 December 1965
Source	Gemini 6A, NSSDC Image Catalog
Author	NASA

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