At the time, the space station was roughly 269 miles (433 kilometers) above Australia at the time, NASA said in the tweet. Here's the view from space by NASA satellites.
An average maximum of 40.9C was recorded on 17 December, broken a day later by 41.9C, both beating 2013's record of 40.3C. NASA satellite image shows grim Australian fire devastation from space. Australia's deadly wildfires have killed at least 17 people since they began in September 2019 and continued into January 2020. Image copyright Anthony Hearsey Image caption An artist's visualisation of one month of Australia fire data Maps and pictures of Australia's unprecedented bushfires have spread widely on … Photographs and film footage have without a doubt left the world shocked, but the view from space shows the scale of what Australians are having to deal with. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 image above shows smoke pouring from numerous fires in … Images taken on Jan. 3 and 4 from the International Space Station, orbiting 433 kilometres above the Tasman Sea, show wildfires surrounding Sydney, Australia. Crew members of the International Space Station had a bird’s eye view as they orbited 269 miles above the Tasman Sea. Australia broke its all-time temperature record twice in December. The wildfires are pictured surrounding Sydney, Australia. New South Wales has been worst hit. Nearly 100 fires have torched an area bigger than Connecticut in New South Wales. The wildfires, which began September, have so far killed at least 25 people.
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