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| November 9, 2011 MODIS/Terra image of oil slick off Campos, Brazil. Image courtesy NASA/Rapid Response Team. |
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Oil Spill off Brazil Seen On Satellite Images
We don't have much information on this yet but Chevron is reporting an oil spill in their Frade field in the Campos Basin off Brazil. Two MODIS satellite images from NASA, taken yesterday, show an apparent oil slick about 35 miles long and covering about 180 square kilometers, 80 miles offshore due east of the city of Campos. Assuming this slick is only one micron (1/1000th of a millimeter) thick, then it represents about 47,000 gallons.
[[Location: -22.117926, -39.664834]]
[[Location: -22.117926, -39.664834]]
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