I'm almost hesitant to post this here as it's wholly a unconvincing claim. However, it's been reported by many different media sources - often unquestioningly - and has tens of thousands of views on social media so I thought it might be worth adding to the collection of claims in need of...
This ordered cloud pattern was formed yesterday, July 26 over the tropical waters of Atlantic and can be seen on the NASA Worldview. The clouds in average are about 100 miles in diameter and their centres are about 150 miles apart, in a quasi-regular lattice.
The pattern was captured by both...
On Google Moon at 27°34'26.35" -19°36'4.75"
UPDATE: Thanks to @Trailblazer, who discovered this is just some debris on the lens (or inside the camera) which appears at regular intervals on the series of images that Google Moon uses.
And comparing the same locations on two sequential...