(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.

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.

It also shows smoke from the Hill and Woolsey Fires in southern California, which by Saturday morning had burned 4,531 acres and about 70,000 acres, respectively.

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