Oil Reaches Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural color satellite image from May 5, 2010. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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NASA Earth Observatory image created by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published May 8, 2010
Data acquired May 5, 2010

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EO-1 > ALI