Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico : Natural Hazards
Environment • June 2010 • Views: 838
Link to large 10MB image, this really shows how big the spill has grown. The thumbnail at the post doesn’t show it as well.
On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.