Swirling cloud art in the Canary Island.
This false-colour #Envisat image highlights a unique cloud formation, created by ‘Von Karman vortices’, south of the Canary Island archipelago, some 95 km from the northwest coast of Africa (right) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Von Karman vortices, form as air flows around an object in its path, causing it to separate and create eddies in its wake.
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2010/06/Swirling_cloud_art_in_the_Atlantic_Ocean