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This artificially colored image from space of the Strait of Gibraltar shows internal waves (wavelength about 2 km) which seem to move from the Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, at the east of Gibraltar and Ceuta. Scientists recently captured evidence of similar internal tidal waves partially breaking.

 
 
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