EROS Image Gallery: Earth as Art 2 Feature Summary
- Type:
- From Physics Research
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EROS Image Gallery: Earth as Art 2
- Description:
- These two images (hi-res version) show the same effect--the trail of vortices that can occur when a fluid flows past an object--at vastly different scales. The left image is a photograph of a flowing soap film in a laboratory. The right image was captured by a Landsat satellite and shows winds sweeping past Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
To learn more about these vortices, visit Karman vortex streets.
This feature was updated on July 3, 2013.
- Image:
 - Left image, from Fluid Motion Gallery, courtesy of Walter Goldburg; Right image, from EROS Image Gallery: Earth as Art 2, courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey
- Featured:
- August 16, 2006 - September 1, 2006
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