NASA’s Terra satellite has captured images of the disaster in Burma. Cyclone Nargis terrorized the cities and villages of Burma just few days ago. The images taken by the satellite show how the cyclone caused serious floods in southern Burma.

The first picture was taken one day before the disaster. In the picture one can see flora with green color, land with brown color and clouds with white and light-blue color. In the second picture one can see the increased amounts of water with blue and black colors. For example Rangoon city (four million inhabitants) is almost totally surrounded by water.

NASA’s satellite images show how several cities of 100.000-500.000 inhabitants are covered by water. According to United Nations, the worst area is Irrawaddy’s peninsula where 5000 square meters of land is covered by water.

You can read more about NASA’s satellite images in NASA’s website.

Text and image sources [Avaruus.Fi via NASA]