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Description	NASA image acquired May 1, 2010. To see a detail view of the oil slick go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4575486942/ The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-color image. The oil slick appeared as a tangle of dull gray on the ocean surface, made visible to the satellite sensor by the sun’s reflection on the ocean surface. On May 1, most of the oil slick was southeast of the Mississippi Delta. Credit: NASA MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
Date	1 May 2010, 12:53
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Image title	NASA image acquired May 1, 2010.The oil slick, which resulted from the accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, lingered near the Mississippi Delta on May 1, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image the same day. The oil slick appears as a tangle of dull gray on the ocean surface, made visible to the satellite sensor by the Sun’s reflection on the ocean surface. Most of the oil slick occurs southeast of the Mississippi Delta.An April 20 explosion at the rig led to a leak of crude oil at the sea floor, roughly 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the ocean surface, where intense pressure impedes most mitigation efforts. The New York Times reported that bad weather further hampered cleanup efforts as Gulf Coast communities braced for arrival of the oil along the shore. As much as 210,000 gallons (790,000 liters) of crude oil a day were leaking into the Gulf at the beginning of May, and that amount might increase..References.Kaufman, L., Robertson, (2010, May 1). In Gulf oil spill, fragile marshes face new threat. The New York Times. Accessed May 1, 2010.NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The MODIS Rapiid Response team provides daily images of this area. Caption by Michon Scott.Instrument: Terra - MODIS
Keywords	oil Spill oil slick NASA Deepwater Horizon oil Mississippi Delta Goddard Space Flight Center
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