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Massive Oil Slick Spotted Off Iran's Kharg Island, Cause Unknown
Massive Oil Slick Spotted Off Iran's Kharg Island, Cause Unknown
An apparent large oil spill spanning dozens of square miles of sea has been spotted off of Iran's main oil hub of Kharg Island, according to open source satellite imagery and reporting in both the NY Times and Reuters on Friday.
The reports cite images from Copernicus's Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 satellites taken from monitoring May 6 through 8 which show a huge grey-and-white slick extending out to the west of Kharg Island.
Image source: Soar
"The slick appears visually consistent with oil," said Leon Moreland,...
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