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SKYTRUTH OIL SPILL REPORTS
Site 23051: Oil Slick Observations > Oil Slick Site 23051 2008-04-23
This is a suspected oil slick from Site 23051 in the Gulf of Mexico measuring 25.9 miles long and covering a surface area of 116 square miles. The image was captured on April 23rd, 2008 by NASA’s Terra spacecraft and is available from the MODIS image library. View this image in Google Earth.
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