Stunning photos of Sri Lanka before and after the heavy Southwestern monsoon rains that caused flooding and landslides and killed over 200 and displaced over half a million have been captured by the Sentinel-2 Satellite belonging to the European Space Agency.

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.

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.

(weather.com)