On May 17, nearly a month after the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, NASA captured this real-color image from a satellite observatory. Oil slicks are not usually noticeable on satellite images, but on this particular day the oil was reflecting sunlight in just the right direction.
Click through for a high quality image.
(via Earth Observatory, reddit)
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