As an equatorial state, Indonesia is often covered by clouds when viewed from outer space. When the cloud is not covering the view, a NASA astronaut utilizes this moment to photograph the islands of Java, Bali, and Lombok, from the International Space Station (ISS).
This photo was taken by an astronaut named Ricky Arnold from ISS which is about 402 thousand kilometers from Earth. Ricky is currently living with five other astronauts on the ISS to conduct a number of experiments.
In the uploaded photos seen from east to west, Lombok is in the foreground, then Bali, as well as the sprawling Java. What makes this photo amazing is the brightest sun shadow reflected from around the island of Bali, making it more brilliant than any other island.
"From outer space, the vast island of Java in Indonesia, Bali and Lombok, is perfectly arranged ... The unrivaled islands are cut off by only a small piece of water called the strait," NASA wrote in Instagram accounts.
In this publication, NASA explained that Bali and Lombok are separated by the Lombok Strait, an invisible boundary called the Wallace Line. This margin extends from Asia to Australia created by a naturalist and geologist and anthropologist, Alfred Russel Wallace.
In 1859, Wallace created this margin to separate Australian wildlife with wildlife in Southeast Asia. The study of the geographic distribution of species and ecosystems is then called biogeography and formed from the work of Wallace and other biologists and explorers.
NASA, through Earth observation facility at Johnson Space Center, once published a photograph of the island of Java to the island of Timor on October 25, 2015, at that time NASA photograph captured a cloud of smoke coming from forest fires caused by lightning strikes and deforestation by humans in Indonesia and Northern Australia.
In the photo of 2015 it also seen a series of volcanoes such as Mount Lawu, Kelut, Semeru, Iyang-Argapura, Raung, up to Rinjani, complete with ash and smoke it releases.
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