Question: Where are the highest temperatures on earth recorded?

context: The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913, but the validity of this record is challenged 
question: Where was the highest registered air temperature recorded on earth?
short_answers: Furnace Creek Ranch
Furnace Creek Ranch, California
Death Valley
context: The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913, but the validity of this record is challenged 
question: Where was the highest ground temperature recorded on Earth?
short_answers: Furnace Creek Ranch
Furnace Creek Ranch, California
Death Valley
context: Temperature measurements via satellite also tend to capture occurrence of higher records but, due to complications involving satellite's altitude loss (a side effect of atmospheric friction), these measurements are often considered less reliable than ground-positioned thermometers. The highest recorded temperature taken by a satellite is , which was measured in the Flaming Mountains of China in 2008. Other satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in 5 of the 7 years measured (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009). These measurements reflect averages over a large region and so are lower than the maximum point surface temperature.
question: Where was the highest temperature on Earth recorded via satellite?
short_answers: Iran
Lut Desert
Lut Desert, Iran

Answer: The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was 56.7 °C (134.1 °F) in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913, but the validity of this record is challenged. Other satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009 found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran.