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English: Natural-colour image of a network of clouds over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru. The clouds in this image occur in “cells” that resemble compartments in a honeycomb. Open-cell clouds look like empty compartments, whereas closed cells look like compartments stuffed with cloud.
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Source NASA Earth Observatory
Author Jeff Schmaltz

Image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

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