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The Gulf of Oil from Space on Day 75

| Wed Jul. 7, 2010 9:06 AM PDT

 

This Earth Observatory posted this image from July 4th of oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well off the Mississippi Delta. The MODIS on NASA’s Terra captured the natural-color image. The oil appears as an uneven light gray shape east-southeast of the delta.

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