November 17, 2002
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Envisat satellite acquired this radarimage of the oil slick off the coast of Spain, stretching more than 150 km,on Sunday, November 17, at 10:45 UTC. The image was captured by the Advanced Synthetic ApertureRadar (ASAR) onboard the Envisat spacecraft, launched by ESAlast March. The ASAR was operating in its wide-swath modecovering an area approximately 400 km by 400 km.
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ENVISAT data copyright ESA 2002. Distributed by RADARSAT International, a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA). Image by Stormcenter Communications.
