California mystery missile contrail NASA-NOAA
The 'mystery' contrail is visible as a horizontal white streak in the middle of the lower left quadrant of this image, captured by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 11. The satellite is a partnership between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Credit: NASA/NOAA
- Date
- November 8, 2010
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 11
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 640 × 480 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (NOAA).
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