Australia broke its all-time temperature record twice in December.
The wildfires are pictured surrounding Sydney, Australia. 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. Crew members of the International Space Station had a bird’s eye view as they orbited 269 miles above the Tasman Sea. The Copernicus Sentinel-3 image above shows smoke pouring from numerous fires in … 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.
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 … Australia's deadly wildfires have killed at least 17 people since they began in September 2019 and continued into January 2020.
Images taken on Jan. 3 and 4 from the International Space Station, orbiting 433 kilometres above the Tasman Sea, show wildfires surrounding Sydney, Australia. 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.
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. NASA satellite image shows grim Australian fire devastation from space. New South Wales has been worst hit.