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Description Satellite image of w:ship tracks, clouds created by the exhaust of ship smokestacks.
Date 11 May 2005
Source http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16907
Author Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Centre, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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