Image: NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 17:10
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Terra satellite flew over the Deepwater Horizon rig's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, May 1 and captured a natural-color image of the slick from space. The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.