MODIS Image on the Terra Satellite Captured a Wide-view Natural-color Image of the Oil Slick (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

MODIS Image on the Terra Satellite Captured a Wide-view Natural-color Image of the Oil Slick

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On April 29, the MODIS image on the Terra satellite captured a wide-view natural-color image of the oil slick just off the Louisiana coast. The oil slick appears as dull gray interlocking comma shapes, one opaque and the other nearly transparent. Sunglint -- the mirror-like reflection of the sun off the water -- enhances the oil slick’s visibility. The northwestern tip of the oil slick almost touches the Mississippi Delta. Credit: NASA/Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the University of Wisconsin’s Space Science and Engineering Center MODIS Direct Broadcast system.

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NASA MODIS Rapid Response Team

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