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Strait of Gibraltar
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STS039-151-193 (28 April-6 May 1991) --- The Strait of Gibraltar, the only outlet for the Mediterranean Sea, was photographed with a large format handheld camera by the STS-39 crew members. Scientists site evidence in Shuttle photography that the Mediterranean Sea dried up a number of times between 5 million and 20 million years ago. Sea levels, they say, dropped slightly, cutting off the Mediterranean (top right) from the Atlantic Ocean (bottom).
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineStrait of Gibraltar. NASA/JSC, 1991-05-06. Public domain. ID: s39-151-193.
