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US-OIL-BLAST-ENERGY
This NASA image released on May 21, 2010 shows how sunlight and oil colored the surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico around the Mississippi Delta are on May 18, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA?s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color image the same day.The diagonal stripes result from the Sun?s reflection on the ocean surface, or sunglint, rather than oil. The sunglint accentuates the left-to-right scans that the satellite sensor makes as it passes over the Earth?s surface, and the stripes are perpendicular to the satellite?s path. Besides hinting at the sensor?s scans, the sunglint also illuminates oil slicks on the sea surface. Bright oil slicks appear east and southeast of the delta. As in earlier images, the oil slick spans many kilometers off the delta. Not all of the pale-hued water, however, is slicked with oil. As an image from April 25 shows, the Mississippi Delta is typically surrounded by sediment-clogged freshwater. Along the left edge of the image, the camel-toned water is probably freshwater filled with sediment. AFP PHOTO/NASA/HANDOUT/RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE
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