Slick from space

Posted at 3:47 PM on June 23, 2010 by Bob Collins (1 Comments)
Filed under: Disasters

NASA has released this satellite photo of the Gulf of Mexico, with the oil slick clearly visible.

NASA has released this satellite photo of the Gulf of Mexico, with the oil slick clearly visible. Click the image for the huge original.

This is the edited version:

If we zoom in a bit, we can play "Guess the oil-soaked animal" game.

(Animal photo via AP)

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Comments (1)

Busier than average hurricane season, you say? Great. We won't need Kevin Costner's oil separators...Mother Nature will disperse the oil for us. On us.

Posted by Tyler | June 23, 2010 4:18 PM

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