Monday, May 10, 2010

Scale of the Oil Spill

Interesting use of Google Earth, to show the magnitude of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico:

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/05/if-you-think-you-have-a-sense-of-the-oil-spills-scale/56425/


May 11: More on this story.

Fortune Magazine:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/11/use-google-maps-to-visualize-oil-spill/

And the best yet, a mention on NBC Nightly News and a reference to this Google product on nightly.msnbc.com (a joint venture with Microsoft).
https://video.google.com/a/?pli=1#/Play/contentId=1730fe083b7bd87e

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