The Oil and the Loop Current

From NYT > Science:

An article today in The Times examines the prospect that oil from the gulf spill could reach the so-called loop current, which could carry it into the Florida Keys and the Atlantic Ocean. Satellite images shed light on the trajectory of the oil and the current. The one above shows the oil spill as observed from space by the NASA satellites Terra and Aqua on Monday.

Original article published in the Science section of the New York Times.