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Here’s what California’s wildfires look like from space

(Courtesy NASA Earth Observatory)

By Dakin Andone, CNN

(CNN) — This week countless photographs have offered caused by California wildfires. Now, with the help of its satellites, NASA has released pictures giving a different perspective.

NASA’s captured this first image of the , just a few hours after the blaze had broken out. That , torching 20,000 acres in less than 14 hours. At one point, it grew by a average of more than one football field every three seconds.

(Courtesy NASA Earth Observatory)

The fire in the picture is highlighted, and beneath that smoke the flames are encroaching on the northern California , where it’s estimated that up to 90% of homes have been destroyed.

The second image, captured by , gives a better sense of the scope of the Camp Fire in relation to the state. Smoke from the blaze obscures a wide swath of the northwestern part of the state, stretching south from Paradise to just north of San Francisco.

(Courtesy NASA Earth Observatory)

It also shows smoke from the Hill and Woolsey Fires in southern California, which by late Friday had burned 4,531 acres and about 35,000 acres, respectively.

 

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