Image of the Day for May 7, 2026 Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast. May 07, 2026 View more Images of the Day: Over the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, winds can whip around the globe relatively unimpeded by land. Intrepid sailors termed these southern latitudes the Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties, and Screaming Sixties on account of the strong prevailing winds. When those winds encounter a barrier like an island, the disruption in airflow can be beautiful. One impediment, shown here, is remote Peter I Island. This ice-cloaked volcano lies at 68.86 degrees south latitude in the Bellingshausen Sea, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of West Antarctica and more than 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) from Cape Horn, Chile. On an austral summer day in 2026, the Landsat 8 satellite captured this image of von Kármán vortex streets downwind of the island.…