SeaWiFS: Oil Rig Fires in Bay of Campeche

  • Credit

    Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Several sediment plumes are visible issuing from the Mexican coast and sunglint brightens much of the signal from the Gulf, but a few long plumes of aerosol streaming toward the northwest from apparent point sources well offshore seem like good oil rig candidates in this SeaWiFS image.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    OrbView-2/SeaWiFS

  • Visualization Date

    2000-11-21