NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of a Giant Pacific Tsunami

NASA Just Recorded the First High-Res Imagery of a Tsunami From Space

The mental picture of a tsunami is usually a giant wall of water building across the ocean and crashing onto shore, wiping everything out along the way. A satellite just caught one from space with enough detail to prove the story isn’t that simple. The insight came from SWOT, a NASA–CNES satellite launched in 2022 to track subtle changes in global water height. It wasn’t built for natural disasters. It was built for the slow, steady movements of…

NASA reveals first-ever high-resolution image of a massive Pacific tsunami, and it’s jaw-dropping

A powerful earthquake off Russias Kamchatka Peninsula in late July caused a massive Pacific tsunami, which was spotted in unprecedented detail by NASA and CNESs SWOT satellite. The observations disclosed complex wave patterns spreading across the ocean, challenging previous beliefs that large tsunamis stay as single, non-dispersive waves. By merging SWOT data with DART buoy measurements, researchers found out that the earthquake rupture extended…

NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of a Giant Pacific Tsunami

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not expect. A satellite designed to track the height of the ocean’s surface proved its capabilities when a powerful earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in late July, sending a tsunami across the Pacific. According to researchers writing [...]