Oil Slick in the Timor Sea - related image preview

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Oil Slick in the Timor Sea - related image preview

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Oil Slick in the Timor Sea

The mirror-like reflection of the Sun off the surface of the Timor Sea highlights the location of an oil slick in this natural-color image from October 28, 2009.


NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption by Rebecca Lindsey, NASA’s Earth Observatory. Oil platform location taken from SkyTruth imagery.

Published October 29, 2009
Data acquired October 28, 2009

Source:
Aqua > MODIS