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Explosion, Leak at Gulf of Mexico Oil Well
Published April 29, 2010
Oil from a leaking well approaches the tip of the Mississippi Delta in this photo-like satellite image from Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
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Published April 28, 2010
An oil slick approaches the Louisiana coast on April 27, 2010.
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Oil Leak from Damaged Well in Gulf of Mexico
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Published April 27, 2010
These satellite images were among the first revealing the scope of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
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Smoke Plume from Burning Oil Rig in Gulf of Mexico
Published April 22, 2010
On April 21, 2010, brownish smoke fanned out to the southeast of a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Oil Slick in the Timor Sea
Published October 29, 2009
The mirror-like reflection of the Sun off the surface of the Timor Sea highlights the location of an oil slick in this natural-color image from October 28, 2009.
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Published September 21, 2009
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.
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Published September 8, 2009
An image from September 3, 2009, shows the area affected by a continuing oil spill in the Timor Sea.
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Published September 2, 2009
This image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on August 30, 2009, shows the Timor Sea and what are probably oil slicks about 250 kilometers northwest of Western Australia.
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Oil Spill off South Korea
Published December 14, 2007
Crude oil from the wrecked 146,000-ton tanker, Hebei Spirit, is seen polluting the sea off South Korea in this Envisat image. In this image, the dark oil covers the coastal waters of the Yellow Sea southwest of Seoul, South Korea. More than 10,000 tons of oil from the tanker were reported to have leaked into the sea after the ship collided with another vessel on Friday, December 7, 2007.
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Oil Spill near Guimaras Island
Published September 2, 2006
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Oil Spill Along the Lebanese Coast
Published August 17, 2006
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Published August 16, 2006
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