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In Pictures: 'Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico'
By James Wray Apr 29, 2010, 19:42 GMT
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT
An airplane operated by Marine Spill Response Corporation Dispersant Group departs Stennis International Airport where large vats of chemicals are being stockpiled, Kiln, USA, on 27 April 2010. The company is working with the US Coast Guard to battle the growing oil spill from a sunken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. EPA/JOHN FITZHUGH NO SALES
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT IMAGE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD BY EXTERNAL MEDIA FOR 14 DAYS AFTER RELEASE. TERMS OF HAND-OUT: NO RESALE, NO ARCHIVE, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NOT FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES
Handout photo from NASA made available 27 April 2010 showing the oil spill from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drill rig disaster located in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, USA on 25 April 2010. This NASA/ALI image taken from the EO-1 satellite shows some of the oil slicks and sheen (bright areas). The spill source is a leaking well on the seafloor located near bottom center of this image. An estimated 42,000 gallons (160,000 liters) of oil per day are leaking from the damaged oil well. EPA/NASA HANDOUT
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT IMAGE
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT IMAGE
Supplies and materials are piled up at a staging area set aside for oil spill cleanup crews and equipment in Woolmarket, Mississippi, USA on 26 April 2010. Oil from a leaking underwater well grew to cover 1,900 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico as the US Coast Guard scrambled to keep the slick from reaching the fragile Gulf Coast shoreline. EPA/WILLIAM COLGIN/SUN HERALD
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT
A Greenpeace handout made availble on 29 April 2010 shows a view of the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread on 28 April 2010. Ships, dwarfed by the spill work to contain some of the oil on the surface. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. An estimated leak of around 1000 barrels (30,000-40,000 gallons, more than 100,000 litres) of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. EPA/Sean Gardner / Greenpeace HANDOUT IMAGE
Handout photo from NASA's Aqua satellite made available 27 April 2010 showing image of the Gulf of Mexico on 25 April 2010 using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. With the Mississippi Delta on the left, the silvery swirling oil slick from the 20 April explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is highly visible. The rig was located roughly 50 miles southeast of the coast of Louisiana. The oil slick may be particularly obvious because it is occurring in the sunlit area, where the mirror-like reflection of the sun off the water gives the Gulf of Mexico a washed-out look. Oil slicks are notoriously difficult to spot in natural-color (photo-like) satellite imagery because a thin sheen of oil only slightly darkens the already dark blue background of the ocean. Under unique viewing conditions, oil slicks can become visible in photo-like images, but usually, radar imagery is needed to clearly see a spill from space. EPA/NASA HANDOUT
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