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Massive Oil Spill Hits US Gulf Coast
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The MODIS image on the Terra satellite captured a wide-view natural-color image of the oil slick (outlined in white) just off the Louisiana coast, 29 Apr 2010. (NASA Image)
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A boat makes its way through crude oil that has leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico near New Orleans, Louisiana, 28 Apr 2010. (AFP Image)
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A clean-up worker laying booms beside a fragile wetlands near the town of Venice that is in the path of the oil spill that is creeping towards the coast of Louisiana, 29 Apr 2010. (AFP Image)
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An oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico comes within 20 miles of barrier islands and beaches in Louisiana, 27 Apr 2010. (NASA Image)