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Oil Slick in the Timor Sea

What was probably a sheen of oil calmed the waters of the Timor Sea and darkened the mirror-like reflection of the sun when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image on September 17, 2009.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published September 21, 2009
Data acquired September 17, 2009

Source:
Terra > MODIS