Gulf oil spill
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In this image, seen on a computer monitor, Emmart is focusing his presentation of satellite imagery on the Gulf of Mexico after the Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill. In the image, the darker areas along the gulf coast show some of the spread of the oil.
Click here to read the related backstage story on the science behind New York's Hayden Planetarium. And click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.
July 13, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET
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