Extremely serious oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico

      This is the worst oil leak ever 

- how are the Gulf coast going to survive this?

An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day are leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico since late April, as a result of an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The rig eventually capsized and sank.

These images of the affected area were captured on April 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer 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 at image center, and the oil slick is a silvery swirl to the right. The oil slick may be particularly obvious because it is occurring in the sunglint area, where the mirror-like reflection of the Sun off the water gives the Gulf of Mexico a washed-out look. The close-up view shows waves on the water surface as well as ships, presumably involved in the clean up and control activities.

Source to this information comes from The NASA Earth Observatory

Read more about this very serious situation here : http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=43768