Severe flooding that has displaced thousands of people in southern Manitoba has reached levels that are quite literally out of this world.
Satellite images of flooding in the Red River Valley were NASA Earth Observatory’s images of the day on Thursday.
The two false-colour images, taken on Tuesday and Wednesday, show the flooded valley on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
The images were taken with sensors that are used to track Earth and climate measurements on two NASA satellites called Terra and Aqua. They orbit throughout the day, passing over the equator from north to south and south to north.
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