Before and after shots of Sri Lanka captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite shows the massive amounts of water that fell on the country during this season's monsoon.
Before and after images captured from space show the severity of flooding that plagued Sri Lanka in late May after rains that triggered hundreds of mudslides and killed more than 200 people .
The MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite captured a false-color image of the flood on May 28, according to NASA. An earlier image taken on Jan. 29 by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 shows the same area before the waters rose.
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The false-color photos combine infrared and visible imagery to enhance the shading, where greens and blues are sharpened to highlight the flood's widespread impact.
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Torrential rain fell for more than 48 hours in parts of the country in late May, with the southern city of Matara receiving the brunt of the deluge. More than half a million people have been affected by the flooding.
According to the Associated Press, flooding left many wells and water supplies contaminated. Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake said at least a dozen countries have sent relief supplies, including the United States, which has pledged $5.4 million in flood relief, Economy Next reported.
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Sri Lankan residents walk through the site of a mudslide in the Kiribathgala village in Ratnapura district on May 31, 2017. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images)
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