Smoke from Indonesian volcano seen from space

A plume of smoke soared almost 12,000 feet into space earlier this week. (Source: NASA/MODIS/CNN)

(CNN) - Pictures from space capture smoke from a 

volcano eruption in Indonesia. 

You can see a plume of smoke from Mount Rinjani 

drifting 

toward Bali and Java earlier this week. 

According to Indonesia's National Disaster Management 

Authority, the plume soared nearly 12,000 into space on

 Tuesday.

A second image was captured a day later. Volcanic ash in 

the area had caused more than a 1,000 flight cancellations

 in recent days. 

Operations at the airport on Bali resumed on Thursday.

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