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“A massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster”
Oil spill gallery (5 of 21)
A Terra satellite captured a wide-view natural-color image of an oil slick off the Louisiana coast taken on April 29, 2010. The huge spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico washed up to coastal Louisiana wildlife and seafood areas on Friday and the U.S. government and military struggled to avert what could become one of the nation's worst ecological disasters. (REUTERS/NASA/Handout)
