Oct. 6, 2016

The image above shows an aerial view of power outages on the Atlantic coast during Hurricane Matthew at 3:14 a.m. local time on Oct. 6, 2016.

At a Glance

Images from NASA show power outages from Hurricane Matthew. At the height of the storm, more than 1 million were without power in Florida.

On the ground, Hurricane Matthew battered South Carolina, Florida and Georgia with flooding rains and damaging winds that knocked out power to millions. Images from NASA captured the outages from the sky.

Three images taken by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) show three nighttime images of the Atlantic coast.

According to NASA, . The observations were layered on the VIIRS data to make the clouds from Matthew more visible.

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As of Oct. 8, about 485,000 were without power in South Carolina, 300,000 in Georgia, more than 127,000 in North Carolina.

In Florida, more than 1 million households and businesses were without power at the height of the storm. By noon on Oct. 8, that number had reportedly dropped to at least 878,907.

Before making landfall in the U.S., Matthew tore through the Caribbean, leaving almost 900 dead in Haiti, according to Reuters. The storm was also cited for four deaths in the Dominican Republic, and two others in Colombia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

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Chris Moore walks down Martin Luther King Blvd. on October 12, 2016 in Lumberton, North Carolina. Hurricane Matthew's heavy rains ended over the weekend, but flooding is still expected for days in North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)