Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kármán vortex street

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Original – Kármán vortex street pattern in clouds caused by the interaction of winds flowing around the mountains of Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile, photographed by Landsat 7

Reason: Good depiction of Kármán vortex street, a fluid dynamics phenomenon, in nature. This one is in the atmosphere and it was captured from space. The repetitive swirling pattern of clouds is caused by the interaction of wind blowing past (lower left corner) high altitude mountains of Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile, specifically the Alejandro Selkirk Island [1] with a peak elevation of 4160 ft. This is a relatively old photo (1999) but the quality is sufficient and this isn't a commonly photographed subject in nature (not laboratory). FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Kármán vortex street, Juan Fernández Islands
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena/Others
Creator: Robert Cahalan, NASA/GSFC

Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 20:21, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – Visual information not readily intelligible to reader/viewer. – Sca (talk) 12:38, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- But that's what our Wiki articles are for! If I see an interesting POTD image, I always go to the article... Support. --Janke | Talk 08:52, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Intriguing, draws attention to an interesting natural phenomenon. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:17, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 09:55, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
support Artem.G (talk) 12:54, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Vortex-street-1.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:34, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]