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Open ocean Internal Waves, Namibia Coast, Africa.
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These open ocean Internal Waves were seen off the Namibia Coast, Africa (19.5S, 11.5E). The periodic and regularly spaced sets of incoming internal appear to be diffracting against the coastline and recombining to form a network of interference patterns. They seem to coincide with tidal periods about 12 hours apart and wave length (distance from crest to crest) varies between 1.5 and 5.0 miles and the crest lengths stretch beyond the image.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineOpen ocean Internal Waves, Namibia Coast, Africa.. NASA/JSC, 1990-12-10. Public domain. ID: s36-82-076.
