Following is a satellite photo of the Gulf showing the extent of the oil plume.

下图为卫星图显示的原油泄漏情况。

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In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.

同样的，无法控制的石油泄漏也成为了美国无法统治好自身的客观证据。

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Another team of scientists wrote in the journal Science about the discovery of a vast 22-mile underwater oil plume the size of Manhattan.

另一组科学家在科学杂志提到这海底22米深的巨大的石油烟缕可以与曼哈顿市的大小相提并论。

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Perhaps now that these microbes have cleaned up the Gulf oil plume with a kind of efficiency that puts federal officials to shame, we can begin cleaning up the mess Washington politicians have made of our domestic energy policy as of late.

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Raymond Highsmith, executive director of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, a Mississipi consortium coordinating the ship's research, says there are a lot of unknowns about the plume, but that he fears that if it is oil it could harm the small sealife that bigger fish and mammals depend on for food.

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