“On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.”

To echo Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy, Damn.

That is a lot of oil in a lot of ocean.

The bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22 image, taken from the Russian section of the orbital outpost and photographed by the STS-129 crew.

Image Credit: NASA
The Brightness of the Sun

November 17, 2008

November 11, 2000

Dubai undertook a massive engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its coastline. This is the Palm Jumeirah, the first of the palm islands.

These are false-color images where bare ground appears brown, vegetation appears red, water appears dark blue, and buildings and paved surfaces appear light blue or gray. Not only have they created coastline, they have also filled in the desert with building and landscape.

From NASA’s picture of the day.