An image of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico taken on Monday by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite:

Via multiple sources, this animation is a computer model of how the oil spill might spread based on ocean currents:

It’s now hurricane season in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean; Talking Points Memo reproduces this map showing the paths of hurricanes passing near the Deepwater Horizon platform (shown as a star in the centre of the map) over the past hundred years. (It’s a NOAA map, apparently, but I can’t find the original source.)

Previously: Time-Lapse Video of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; The New York Times’s Interactive Oil Spill Map; Mapping the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill; Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Update.