Mt. Fuji is often shrouded in cloud and fog, but this image was captured on a clear day, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite - flying 800 km above.
3D panoramic view of Mount Fuji. Picture made using SRTM data, provided by NASA.
Mount Fuji is an active volcano that erupts approximately every 500 years. Its last confirmed eruption was in 1707. Mount Fuji is about 62 miles away from Tokyo.
Tokyo is the largest & most populated city on earth.
Montana is still getting wildfire smoke from western Canada, but the old Northwest Territory seems fairly clear of it for now. The sweep of haze this afternoon looks like it's over the Eastern Seaboard, though, and even part of the Gulf of Mexico as it's pushed out over the Atlantic.
This image shows the “moonrise” of the satellite as it emerges from behind asteroid Dinkinesh as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI), one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft This image was taken at closest approach, from a range of 270 miles (430k).
Aaaaaand: the wildfire smokey haze is back! Looks like the smoke from the western wildfires is being funneled down toward the southeast, sending the AQI back into cautionary territory:
Eastern Montana has the worst smoke in the U.S. right now.
The haze over the middle countryside was all too evident as well:
Humidity might add some haziness to the scene, but it's mostly smoke. For further comparison:
Just north of Hoopeston, IL on July 16 (above) and when the air was clearer (below) on June 12:
It makes so much sense that if this really is the eggs trying to communicate that it was Ramon who figured out how to do it. He’s been building and working on ways for Fit to send messages secretly outside of the island for months. Of course that little egg has some ideas on how to send a message from a distant place.