NASA's Images of the Gulf Oil Spill

by The Environmentalist's Staff

NASA's Earth Observatory has been tracking the oil disaster in the Gulf with day-by-day pictures from its satellite (click on the picture to see more):

The Deepwater Horizon owners, finally, after urging by the White House and Congress, has begun releasing videos.  The leak (gusher) on the ocean floor:



and their failed attempt to place a large dome over the leak:



NASA's satellite images:  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/event.php?id=43733


The politics involved with this disaster:  The Gulf Oil Spill: an ecological disaster years in the making  

LABELS: BP, DEEP HORIZON, ENVIRONMENT, GULF OIL DISASTER, HALLIBURTON, HISTORY, NASA, OIL,TRANSOCEAN