NASA satellite makes art of ship tracks, clouds over Atlantic Ocean

Using its Aqua satellite, NASA captured a beautiful image of ships tracks through the Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Spain and Portugal on Jan. 16. The U.S. space agency posted the photo with a brief educational explanation on ship tracks and how they look through its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Wednesday. "The narrow clouds, known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships emit as exhaust or that form from gases in the exhaust," NASA writes. More

(Source: MLive.com - Jan 25)