Image: Oil Slick in the Gulf of Mexico
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.