Gulf of Oman oil tanker fire viewed by NASA satellite

June 13th, 2019 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

One or two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz were hit by torpedoes or mines this morning. I checked the NASA Worldview website to see if NASA’s MODIS imager on the Terra satellite picked it up. I had to enhance the image to bring out the dark smoke against the dark ocean background:

I suspect gasoline prices are about to rise.


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