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

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

A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel. A satellite designed to measure ocean surface height delivered a remarkable result when a powerful earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula unleashed a tsunami that spread across the Pacific in late July. Scientists report in The Seismic Record [...]

What new NASA view did the tsunami satellite capture?

First high resolution satellite look at a massive Pacific tsunami NASA reported a landmark observation of a tsunami with its ocean sensing satellite instruments, capturing what scientists describe as the first ever high resolution view of a massive Pacific tsunami. The satellite used measurements…