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Zoom out 35,000 kilometres, and you can see why Cyclone Debbie continues to wreak havoc on the people of Queensland.

On the ground, Cyclone Debbie has hammered buildings, cut roads, downed trees — all as people cowered in the smallest, safest places they could find.

"It was very chaotic, it was crazy," explained Juliane Kasiske, whose house in Airlie Beach was ripped apart.

But the cyclone wasjust the beginning. Torrential rain and storms have continued well after Debbie was downgraded to a tropical low.

"This storm's just unbelievable after the cyclone," said Sue Buckley in Proserpine. "We have thunder and lightning from early this morning, and torrential rain, and it's just like, what else can you throw at us?"

When you zoom out 25,000 kilometres, you can see theglobal scaleof exactly what Debbie has thrown at the people of Queensland.

The image above shows the aftermath of the cyclone as captured today by the Japanese geostationary satellite Himawari-8.

But Himawari also provides amuch bigger, closer viewof Debbie. Like this slice of the globe. (Just keep scrolling...)

Did you spotthe curves of the Earthat the top and the bottom?

It's a view similar to what crew members aboard the International Space Station saw when they flew above Cyclone Debbie on Tuesday, before the storm crossed the coast.