oil disaster from nasa sattellite

[spanone]

NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible satellite image of the Gulf oil spill on May 17 at 16:40 UTC (12:40 p.m. EDT) from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Instrument on-board. The oil slick appears as a dull gray on the water's surface and stretches south from the Mississippi Delta with what looks like a tail.
5:17 p.m. ET, 5/17/10

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37197702/displaymode/1176/rstry/37188621/

[jimlup]

1. Yeah, and that tail is it entering the loop current.

[spanone]

2. it's massive

[sce56]

3. Looks like a Twister or water spout tail! n/t

[G_j]

4. very large

http://www.gulfmex.org/facts.htm


The total area of the Gulf is about 600,000 square miles. (3)

The greatest distance across the Gulf is approximately 1,000 miles going east to west. (3)

The shortest distance across the Gulf is about 500 miles between the Mississippi Delta and the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula