Monday, March 5, 2012

Tsunami Tracks in the Sky

Even though this is not current news, it has to do a lot about the topic which we are working on right now i science. My friend and I found this event a couple of days back and found it really interesting, maybe the most interesting one i had to read this year. The article has to do about the Tsunami wave that struck Japan, and how a group of scientist have discover my photography the tsunamis path by looking at the sky, to be more precise in the ionosphere layer of our atmosphere. The discovery was a pure accident, or at least that what they say. The camera was just supposed to talk picture of the beautiful hawaiian sky but grabbed a big discovery with it. And the tsunami is indicated as the glowing ripples that move a cross a sky, like a tsunami in the water,  just its in the sky. So literally were the wave passes these glowing ripples pass as well in the same direction like the tsunamis twin. This event happens because in the ionsphere there are many ions, so even the smallest boost of the oceans send particles racing toward the ionsphere layer which then causes the glowing ripples thus making the Tsunami in the sky. Even though these are as i understood not the first studies of the tsunami in the sky they are the first one with actual proof pictures. Now the scientist Makela and his team are thinking about installing sky watch cameras in areas which have a lot of floods and tsunamis, They also said that at one point noraml cameras will be able to trace signs of tsunamis. And im going to end it with this one quote which really stuck to me!

“It’s a really neat example of how the environment is coupled together,” Makela says
Hope you enjoyed!

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting article. Some of it was confusing. How did they find this out? Do you have an image of it to show us?

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