NASA Earth Observatory

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Every month, NASA Earth Observatory features a puzzling satellite image.

Your challenge is to identify the location in that image.

Using the contact form on the science.nasa.gov website, you can then submit your response.

This morning our time.

NASA's Earth Observatory ran it as their image of the day.

The operational land imager on Landsat 8 and VIIRS on SIOMI NPP showing the plume and the ash fall.

Different job from Himawari.

FIRMS also corroborated the scale of the fires using thermal sensor data that mapped intense hotspot clusters across dried peatlands and degraded forest tracks in west and central Kalimantan.

while Earth Observatory aerosol imagery tracked heavy smoke and fine particulate plumes lifting into the atmosphere and drifting westward over the Karamata Strait and northeast across the South China Sea.

Firms supplied the Times with the latest satellite imagery of the path of the toxic fumes.

The blazes stem from agricultural land clearing combined with drained, dry peatlands.