NASA satellite photographs SA bushfires from space

NASA has released a confronting satellite image of the bushfires in Adelaide Hills, South Australia.

On January 3, 2015, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of smoke from the Adelaide Hills fire. (NASA)

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NASA has released a confronting satellite image of the bushfires in Adelaide Hills, South Australia. 

Thick plumes of smoke are clearly visible in the photo, which was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite in space.

South Australia is enduring the state's worst fire conditions since the Ash Wednesday blaze in 1983, in which 28 people died in SA.

Hundreds of firefighters and a record number of aircraft have been mobilised in an effort to contain the bushfire which has destroyed or badly damaged 26 homes, as well as dozens of farm buildings, and scorched almost 13,000 hectares of land since Friday.