Good guess. Could be. I know sometimes they come in at such an angle that they basically bounce off the atmosphere and return to space. But that happens scores if not hundreds of miles up.
I'm betting as many eyes as we have in the skies that there are other images out there somewhere of the same place, same day. Remember that alot of images are never released because if you see them, you can start to decode the technology used to make them.
those are von Karman waves, caused by various land masses interacting with cloud cover during earth rotation.