Bhubaneswar:  Cyclone Fani, one of the worst storms made landfall in the state last week. The cyclone wreaked havoc in Orrisa and around 3.5 million households in the state of Odisha were left without electricity for days after Cyclone Fani. America based space agency NASA released before-and-after pictures of twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack which shows the power outage in some of the worst affected areas in the state.

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NASA said that the images shared by it were "data visualisations of where the lights went out across some of the worst affected areas in Odisha."  The images depicted the city lighting on April 30 (two days before the storm) and on May 5, two days after the storm had made landfall in Puri. 

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NASA said, “These images were made from data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite. VIIRS has a “day-night band” that detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared, including reflected moonlight, light from fires and oil wells, lightning, and emissions from cities or other human activity.” 

The storm lay a trail of destruction as it crossed through the state to enter West Bengal, and eventually Meghalaya and Bangladesh. At least 40 people were killed in the cyclone, left a hundred others homeless in the cities of Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Khurda. At least eight lakh people were evacuated in a matter of few days from the vulnerable and low-lying areas in Odisha.