NASA photos show the Amazon fires lighting up the night sky across all of South America
The images, taken between August 15-22, show lit up areas in South America where blazes continued to burn. Hundreds of new fires have been discovered raging in the rainforest as thousands of troops were deployed. Locations of infernos, shown in orange, were overlain on nighttime imagery, with cities presented as white. Large patch of orange in Brazil concentrates around Pará and Amazonas, which have been heavily affected.
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