{"id":5876,"date":"2010-06-19T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2010-06-22T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T19:50:37","slug":"gulf-of-mexico-oil-slick-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/5876","title":{"rendered":"Gulf of Mexico oil slick update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100619_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS true color and false color RGB images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100619_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_anim.gif\" title=\"MODIS true color and false color RGB images\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color and false color RGB images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The comparison of a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image <em>(created using Bands 1\/4\/3)<\/em> with the corresponding MODIS false color (created using Bands 7\/2\/1) image from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ge.ssec.wisc.edu\/modis-today\/index.php?satellite=a1&#038;product=true_color&#038;date=2010_06_19_170&#038;overlay_sector=false&#038;overlay_state=true&#038;overlay_coastline=true\">SSEC MODIS Today<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed intricate details of the surface oil slick in the far northern Gulf of Mexico on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20100619.html\">19 June 2010<\/a><\/strong>. The glaciated cloud tops of deep convection appeared as darker shades of cyan on the false color image.<\/p>\n<p>On the true color image,  note the small black features located over the bright oil slick, toward the lower left portion of the image &#8212; this was smoke from small fires which were apparently being set to burn off some of the surface oil <em>(the fire hot spots show up as shades of pink on the false color image)<\/em>. This was Day 61 following the explosion of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?s=Deepwater+Horizon\">Deepwater Horizon<\/a><\/strong> offshore oil rig on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/5240\">20 April<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The MODIS true color image displayed using Google Earth <strong><em>(below; courtesy of Liam Gumley, CIMSS)<\/em><\/strong> offers a different perspective and a larger-scale view of the oil slick.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100619_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/06\/100619_modis_truecolor_google.jpg\" title=\"MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MODIS true color image (displayed using Google Earth)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comparison of a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image (created using Bands 1\/4\/3) with the corresponding MODIS false color (created using Bands 7\/2\/1) image from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed intricate details of the surface oil slick in the far northern Gulf of Mexico on 19 June 2010. The glaciated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-earth","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}