Swirling clouds over the South Pacific


Anticyclone over the South Pacific
 
Cloud structures over the South Pacific, seen with the OSIRIS Imaging System’s narrow-angle camera on 13 November at 06:48 CET. The clouds are part of an anticyclone that is visible close to the centre of the image below.

This false-colour composite was generated from the orange, green and blue optical colour filters. It depicts a portion of the scene below with five times the resolution.

Clouds over the South Pacific
 
OSIRIS wide-angle camera image of cloud structures over the South Pacific.

Taken three minutes before the image above on 13 November at 06:45 CET, this image is shown in a logarithmic scale to bring out details in the varying light intensity. As a result the scene looks roughly the same as it would appear to the unaided human eye.

Clouds over the South Pacific
 
Clouds in an anticyclone over the South Pacific imaged with the orange filter of the narrow-angle camera. This image is shown in a logarithmic scale to bring out details in the varying light intensity. As a result the scene looks roughly the same as it would appear to the unaided human eye.



Release date: 15 June 2010