Things are not looking good for the gulf coast.
These images of the affected area were captured on April 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite (top, wider view) and the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite (bottom, close up).
In the top image the Mississippi Delta is top center. Crews are trying to keep oil out of the Pass A Loutre wildlife area, a 115,000-acre preserve near the mouth of the Mississippi River.