Image: Oil Reaches Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana
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Description: Light tan streamers snake across Chandeleur Sound in this detailed natural-colour satellite image. The streamers are probably ropes of oil from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The streamers surround Freemason Island and arc through Chandeleur Sound west of the Chandeleur Islands.
Title: Oil Reaches Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
Author: Jesse Allen
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