Maybe there's something for hippies to love about ecological
disaster, after all. Chris Combs, photography editor at National
Geographic News, took these amazing shots while on assignment in the
Gulf of Mexico. Via Submitterator,
he says:
...researcher Ping Wang pointed me towards his grad student's work with UV light. Turns out that the oil glows bright, head-shop fluorescent orange under UV light. Rip Kirby's ultra-powerful $1800 "Klingon Death Ray" ultraviolet spotlight lit up every particle of oil-stained sand, even in seemingly clean areas, and our footprints showed up Day-Glo orange.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Oil spill glows under UV light - Boing Boing
Author: Maggie Koerth-Baker
