Images & Animations
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Credit
ENVISAT data copyright ESA 2002. Distributed by RADARSAT International, a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA). Image by Stormcenter Communications.
A damaged oil tanker off the northwest coast of Spain split in half on Nov. 19, 2002, leaking more than a million gallons of oil into the Atlantic—some of which is now washing ashore in Spain.
The European Space Agency?s (ESA) Envisat satellite acquired this radar image of the oil slick off the coast of Spain, stretching more than 150 km, on Sunday, November 17, at 10:45 UTC. The image was captured by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard the Envisat spacecraft, launched by ESA last March. The ASAR was operating in its wide-swath mode covering an area approximately 400 km by 400 km.
Metadata
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Sensor
GOES 7/ASAR -
Start Date
2002-11-17 -
Event Start Date
2002-11-13 -
NH Image ID
5269 -
NH Event ID
5169 -
NH Posting Date
2002-11-22
