Gulf Oil Slick Looks 'Very Scary' From Space, Cosmonaut Says 

Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 12:00AM
Eric Rathbun in Environment, deepwater horizon oil spill

"Just 30 minutes ago we passed over the Mexican Gulf and we took a lot of pictures of this oil spot," space station commander Oleg Kotov, a Russian cosmonaut, told reporters on Earth via a video link.

"It looks very scary," Kotov said. "It's not good. I really feel ... not good about that.

  LINK (Via: Space.com)

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