Oil keeps on Spreading in the Gulf of Mexico

An image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua satellite on Tuesday afternoon, May 11, shows that the damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well continued to leak significant amounts of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.



Oil slicks become most visible in photo-like satellite images when they appear in a swath of the image called the sunglint region?where the mirror-like reflection of the Sun is blurred by ocean waves into a washed-out strip of brightness. In the [...]

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