A Picture is Worth... Myanmar Before and After Cyclone Nargis
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles 
on 05. 8.08
Image courtesy of NASA/MODIS
These photos, which vividly capture the scope of the tragedy that befell Myanmar (or Burma), were taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Terra satellite's visual-infrared instrument. The U.N. estimates that over 1.5 million individuals may have been affected by Cyclone Nargis; over 100,000 are feared to be dead.
Via ::Scientific American: Myanmar Cyclone: Before and After (news website)
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