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7 years ago
A Patchwork Of Bright, Criss-crossing Cloud Trails Was Created By Ships Churning Through The Atlantic

A patchwork of bright, criss-crossing cloud trails was created by ships churning through the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal and Spain in this image captured by one of our Earth observing satellites. The narrow clouds known as ship tracks, form when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships emit.

Some of the pollution particles generated by ships (especially sulfates) are soluble in water and serve as the seeds around which cloud droplets form. Clouds infused with ship exhaust have more and smaller droplets than unpolluted clouds. Because of this, the light hitting the polluted clouds scatters in many directions, making them appear brighter and thicker than unpolluted marine clouds, which are typically seeded by larger, naturally occurring particles such as sea salt.

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2 years ago

Droplets

Drip..

Drip....

Drip...

The sound of the water crashing onto the porcelain pierces my ears.

But it's not that kind of piercing, not the 'gotta stand up and fix this'-type.

And even if I would like to stand up to fix it, I couldn't. I'm frozen, falling into the abyss, in a timeless place without any meaning. Everything's so meaningless.

And I'm just like these droplets, falling.

Falling deeper..

deeper....

And deeper...


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