File:Open- and Closed-Cell Clouds over the Pacific Ocean.jpg

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Description	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.
Date	28 April 2010
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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