the slick

NASA has just released a spectacular picture of the BP spill taken on 19 June 2010:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=44375

BTW, not that these pictures come courtesy of a governmental science agency. Remember that the next time some anti-science politician suggest cutting funding for science and leaving all innovation to the private sector. Imagine if the satellite that took this picture were owned by a corporate giant who owned BP... I suspect in such a case we wouldn't be seeing any such pictures at all.