Spill, Baby Spill

See how the oil spill grows in the Gulf of Mexico. (Via: USA Today)

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration experts now estimate that 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spilling into the gulf. Officials had estimated the leak for days at 1,000 barrels a day.

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NASA Images of Oil Leak from Damaged Deepwater Horizon Well in the Gulf of Mexico

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.

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