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	Tsunamis On the Sun

mcsmithblack

11-25-2009 11:51 PM

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mcsmithblack says:

If you click on the video, you can pull up a larger view.
The video is just staggering. I try to imagine something like this happening on Earth, and I just can't do it.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5f818d93-ae16-4301-ac99-1b19c64086ae/220D7B74-D343-4BFD-BAFD-70A69D139E64/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571" href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571" style="font-size: 11px;">science.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571"><P><SPAN class="storyTitle"><FONT size="4"> Monster Waves on 
                    the Sun are Real</FONT></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>November 
                    24, 2009:</STRONG> Sometimes you really <EM>can</EM> believe 
                    your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations 
                    Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial 
                    phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami."</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Years 
                    ago, when solar physicists first witnessed a towering wave 
                    of hot plasma racing along the sun's surface, they doubted 
                    their senses. The scale of the thing was staggering. It rose 
                    up higher than Earth itself and rippled out from a central 
                    point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. 
                    Skeptical observers suggested it might be a shadow of some 
                    kind—a trick of the eye—but surely not a real wave.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571"><P align="center"><A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/solartsunami/twoviews_big.gif"><IMG width="450" height="177" border="1" alt="see caption" src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/solartsunami/twoviews_strip.gif" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/24nov_solartsunami.htm?list1127571"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Above:</STRONG> 
                    A solar tsunami seen by the STEREO spacecraft from orthogonal 
                    points of view. The gray part of the animation has been contrast-enhanced 
                    by subtracting successive pairs of images, resulting in a 
                    "difference movie." [<A href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/solartsunami/twoviews_big.gif">larger 
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