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Gulf of Mexico oil spill
author: Esa/Novapix
reference: t-nalou-00004
Image Size 300 DPI: 12 * 9 cm
On April 20, 2010, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon suffered an explosion and sank two days later. Shortly thereafter, oil began leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from ruptured pipes deep on the ocean floor. Envisat optical image of the oil spill (visible as a white whirl on the right) in the Gulf of Mexico. The image was acquired from the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) on 25 April 2010 at 16:28 UTC.
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