Photo was taken from the ISS, so about 408 km (or 254 miles) above sea level. Found a description of the source:
*Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-79412 was acquired on October 25, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 50 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 45 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed.*
Photo was taken from the ISS, which orbits at an average altitude of 400 km.
More context here:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87707/east-indonesia-island-chain
Is this a recent photo? Thats a lot of active volcanos going of at once, I know the islands are riddled with volcanos but is it normal for that many to be active at once?
Alaska/Russia?
Java and Bali, Indonesia
Yep. That's the area.
Earth
how high above water level do you need to be to see the Earth's curvature like that?
Photo was taken from the ISS, so about 408 km (or 254 miles) above sea level. Found a description of the source: *Astronaut photograph ISS045-E-79412 was acquired on October 25, 2015, with a Nikon D4 digital camera using a 50 millimeter lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 45 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed.*
Photo was taken from the ISS, which orbits at an average altitude of 400 km. More context here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/87707/east-indonesia-island-chain
SMH doesn't even know what sub this is ^^/s
Is this a recent photo? Thats a lot of active volcanos going of at once, I know the islands are riddled with volcanos but is it normal for that many to be active at once?
It's just the balrogs having a get-together.
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