We have talked about the Gulf Oil Spill for several days. Now some of the oil is creeping onto land near the Mississippi River Delta. NASA has taken another picture of the oil from its Terra satellite using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument. Up in the right hand side of the image you can see the Mississippi River delta as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

NASA satellite image acquired May 9, 2010 at 19 :05 UTC

Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico

Satellite: Aqua

NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oil-creep.html

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