00:00What if a satellite just rewrote everything we thought we knew about tsunamis?
00:04NASA's latest tech just did exactly that,
00:06when a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in July.
00:12It sent a powerful tsunami racing across the Pacific.
00:15But this time, something incredible happened.
00:18A NASA satellite called SWAT captured the first-ever high-resolution image of that tsunami from space.
00:24Not just a glimpse, a full 120-kilometer-wide view in stunning detail.
00:29Scientists were shocked.
00:31They saw wave patterns they never expected.
00:33The tsunami didn't behave like a single wave as models predicted.
00:37Instead, it broke into complex patterns, almost like it had a mind of its own.
00:41This changes everything.
00:43Old models assumed tsunamis like this don't disperse.
00:46But SWAT showed they can. And do.
00:49Using data from ocean buoys and SWAT,
00:51scientists realized the quake's rupture was much bigger than expected.
00:55400 kilometers long.
00:56That's 100 kilometers longer than previous models predicted.
01:01This breakthrough could reshape how we forecast and prepare for tsunamis.
01:05And maybe save thousands of lives in the future.
01:08For the first time ever, we're not just watching tsunamis hit.
01:10We're watching them form and evolve in real time from space.
01:14We're watching them form and evolve in real time from space.
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