Striped clouds appear to converge over a mountaintop in this photo, but that’s an illusion. In reality, these clouds are parallel and periodic; it’s only the camera’s wide-angle lens that Keep reading
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Crisscrossing Wave Clouds
Crisscrossing lines of wave clouds mark the wake of the Sandwich Islands in this satellite image. The tallest islands in the chain thrust rocky peaks more than 1000 meters above Keep reading
Wave Clouds
Stripe-like wave clouds can often form downstream of mountains. This satellite image shows such clouds in the South Pacific where rocky mountains jut 600 meters (2,000 ft) above the sea. Keep reading
Gravity Waves on Mars
It may look like grainy, black and white static from a 20th-century television, but this animation shows what may be the first view of gravity waves seen from the ground Keep reading
Wave Clouds
In this video, Sixty Symbols tackles the physics of wave clouds. When air flows over an obstacle like a mountain, the air can begin to oscillate downstream, forming what is Keep reading
Wave Clouds
Coming home from APS DFD, I looked out the window as we flew east over the last of the Rockies and caught these wave clouds. Air flowing west to east Keep reading