A Hole in the Sky – April 9, 2022
On April 3, 2022, the Terra satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snapped a picture of this patch of sky, which seems to be the work of a cosmic entity that punched a hole through the Earth’s clouds. Gary Patryka, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, has a more scientific explanation. He said: “It looks like there was a frontal weather system zipping by from west-to-east between 50-60 degrees south latitude. At the same time, a deck of more stationary, low clouds closer to the tip of Africa was being eroded by a high-pressure region with sinking air. The sinking air produced a semi-circle ring of clouds between 45-50 degrees south. When both of these phenomena lined up in longitude, it gave the appearance of a giant hole in the clouds.”
