He then plotted the times of the tidal maximums on a map to create a visualization called a co-tidal chart.

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"This is a crucial milestone for us, it will be the first array of tidal stream turbines, " observed report co-author Professor AbuBakr Bahaj from the University of Southampton.

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In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.

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