A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico

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: A slick of sunlight-altered oil floating on the Gulf of Mexico after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers found that nearly 10 percent of the oil floating on the Gulf after the spill dissolved into the water by sunlight - a process called photo-dissolution.

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Photo by Cabell Davis III © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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