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By Dakin Andone, CNN
(CNN) — This week countless photographs have offered close-up depictions of the destruction caused by California wildfires. Now, with the help of its satellites, NASA has released pictures giving a different perspective.
NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite captured this first image of the Camp Fire on the morning of November 8, just a few hours after the blaze had broken out. That fire grew quickly, 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.
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The fire in the picture is highlighted, and beneath that smoke the flames are encroaching on the northern California community of Paradise, where it’s estimated that up to 90% of homes have been destroyed.
The second image, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite, 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.
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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.
NOAA’s #GOESEast got a closer look at the fast-moving #WoolseyFire that prompted evacuations in #Malibu. This wildfire covers 14,000 acres, while the nearby #HillFire covers more than 6,000 acres. More imagery: https://t.co/va8BJs4YEG pic.twitter.com/qANVRck9Xo
— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) November 9, 2018
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