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Oil Leak from Damaged Well in Gulf of Mexico

These satellite images were among the first revealing the scope of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Oil Leak from Damaged Well in Gulf of Mexico.

NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey.

Published April 27, 2010
Data acquired April 25, 2010