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In his recent tweet from the International Space Station as it's current Mission 56 Commander, NASA astronaut Andrew J. Feustel says:

This is #Indonesia as viewed from the @Space_Station. With the low clouds it is easy to see the peaks of the volcanoes associated with the Sunda Megathrust subduction zone that lies at the tectonic boundary of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates.

I can't visualize where these are on Earth, mostly because of the cloud cover in the image. Where is this?

Indonesian Volcanos from Space

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This was taken looking from around above or near Western Australia, looking north. You can see a fuzzy green patch to the centre and left of the photo. That's the eastern part of Java.

Here's the image where I labelled some of the volcanoes, and a reference image from Google Earth.

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    $\begingroup$ By the way, the one that I didn't label but would be 8 if I did, is Mt Agung in Bali, which is a currently active volcano. $\endgroup$
    – Gimelist
    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:43
  • $\begingroup$ Then it needs a cartoon-like eruption rather than a green number! $\endgroup$
    – uhoh
    Aug 22, 2018 at 11:49
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    $\begingroup$ Funny. I used the same colour, but it looks blue in the first image and green in the second. lol $\endgroup$
    – Gimelist
    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:02
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    $\begingroup$ I guess it's the same color, but with different backgrounds, and a little bit of mixing due to the thin lines, it looks different. i.stack.imgur.com/bhde2.jpg $\endgroup$
    – uhoh
    Aug 22, 2018 at 12:25

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