This beautiful map shows an average of all of the available swarm observance from the Aqua planet . The shades of drab stand for the cloudiness of our planet .
The visual is based on datum acquired from July 2002 until April 2015 , offer a top - down view that shows where the satellite ’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer examine clouds versus clear-cut sky : dark blue represents no clouds , unaccented Amytal are some cloud , white-hot sphere are frequent clouds .
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One studybased on nearly a ten of artificial satellite data point estimated that about 67 percent of Earth ’s control surface is typically covered by cloud . This is particularly the case over the oceans , whereother researchshows less than 10 percent of the sky is completely clear of clouds at any one time . Over ground , 30 percent of skies are completely cloud free .
land ’s cloudy nature is unmistakable in this global swarm fraction map , based on data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ) on the Aqua planet . While MODIS pile up enough information to make a new world-wide mathematical function of cloudiness every day , this version of the mapping show an average of all of the satellite ’s swarm observations between July 2002 and April 2015 .
There are three broad bands where Earth ’s sky are most likely to be nebulous : a narrow flight strip near the equator and two wider landing strip in the mid - latitudes .
[ NASA Earth Observatory ]
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