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Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico: Visible from Space (Photo)

by Jordan Yerman | April 27, 2010 at 09:29 am

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Satellite Photos

NASA has captured satellite photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico- the spill itself is the size of New Orleans.

NASA's Aqua satellite captured the spill on April 25, after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform sank off the coast of Louisiana. Normally oil slicks are hard to see from above, as the color is only slightly different from the surrounding ocean. In this case, the Aqua satellite's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) was able to take advantage of the glint of the sunlight to capture the scale of the oil spill.

The attached photo comes courtesy of NASA.

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Pat Garcia

at 13:39 on April 27th, 2010

Thanks for posting this Jordan

Greg Ohnen (not verified)

at 10:29 on April 29th, 2010

OMG ,,this is just the begginning of a nightmare for the oil industry,,,they wont be able to stop the leak,,I am sorry people,,no more nice white beaches

David Zoller (not verified)

at 11:42 on April 29th, 2010

Here we go again, New Orleans and Louisiana get screwed.

Corneleus Gontropulus (not verified)

at 08:04 on April 30th, 2010

can you not see this is the start of the end of the world......

whorehey (not verified)

at 08:06 on April 30th, 2010

we are all gonna die save the children and the ducks

whatever0ne (not verified)

at 06:02 on May 2nd, 2010

Dang, can't anything ever happen with out some yahoo throughing in God and the "END OF DAYS" really. yea, this sucks! but it is not the end of the world I repeat it is not the END.

number 1 horseman.. (not verified)

at 14:42 on May 10th, 2010

I got my bottle of dawn ,its ok

helpless ones thats us (not verified)

at 07:03 on May 14th, 2010

2012 is coming and this is a sign Wake up people the end is near and a new world will startit about time these rich slobs see what they have done to mother earth see is pissed of for what man has done to her.Get Ready for a new world

rodrigo (not verified)

at 15:09 on May 17th, 2010

wtf man u guys are nut

Last Exit (not verified)

at 16:22 on May 19th, 2010

"Then the second angel sounded; and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became as blood; and a third of the living creatures in the sea died and a third of the ships were destroyed."(Rev:8:8-9)