In this animated image, you can see the massive flooding that occurred in the town of Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, when a dam unleashed a wall of muddy wastewater on the area.

(Image via NASA)

A deadly dam failure that sent wastewater from an iron ore mine downstream into a Brazilian town earlier this month was visible from space, as NASA has revealed in a pair of photos.

The before-and-after images have been animated at the top of this page to show just how much of the sludge filled the town of Bento Rodrigues, , according to Reuters. Nineteen remain missing two weeks after the disaster, and 500 others were displaced, the report added.

The volume of tainted water turned loose over more than 300 miles of rivers is about 60 million cubic meters, the equivalent of 25,000 Olympic swimming pools, the Reuters report also said.

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The two images in the animated photo at the top of this page were captured by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard Landsat 8. The image that shows the land before the dam break ; the image that shows the flooding was taken on Nov. 12.

Environmental Fallout

This dam failure had, and will continue to have, far-reaching impacts on the environment, as well as the residents who live near the waterways filled with this contaminated sludge. Two weeks after the collapse, some 250,000 people , Think Progress reported.

Mining giants BHP and Vale , and the BBC reported the pair of corporations has been fined $260 million for the mining accident, which is believed to be the worst in the country's history. That fine will be used to help those affected by the environmental disaster and also to clean up the area flooded by the sludge, the BBC also said.

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