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June 24, 2018 - Clouds banking along Peru Coastline
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Long fingers of fog pushed onto Peru’s Pacific Coast in late June 2018. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of the scene on June 20.
A large bank of marine stratocumulus cloud shrouds the blue ocean waters. These low-level clouds – also known as fog – are persistent off the coast of Peru, especially in the winter and early spring. Because the marine clouds lie just a few hundred meters above the ground, the tall Andes Mountains block their movement inland. The tendrils of fog trace the low river valleys that lie between the steep mountains.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Terra
Date Acquired: 6/20/2018
Resolutions:
1km (411.2 KB), 500m (1.1 MB), 250m (1 MB)
Bands Used: 7,2,1
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Long fingers of fog pushed onto Peru’s Pacific Coast in late June 2018. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of the scene on June 20.
A large bank of marine stratocumulus cloud shrouds the blue ocean waters. These low-level clouds – also known as fog – are persistent off the coast of Peru, especially in the winter and early spring. Because the marine clouds lie just a few hundred meters above the ground, the tall Andes Mountains block their movement inland. The tendrils of fog trace the low river valleys that lie between the steep mountains.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Terra
Date Acquired: 6/20/2018
Resolutions:
1km (411.2 KB), 500m (1.1 MB), 250m (1 MB)
Bands Used: 7,2,1
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
