Here’s a challenge for budding surfers. NASA spacecraft have recently provided firm photographic evidence of a phenomenon known as a “solar tsunami”. The wave of gas they photographed was caused by an erupting sunspot. It was 100,000 km high and was moving at 250 km/sec. Now that’s what I call a big wave.
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That immediately put me in mind of this old snapshot from my gallery:
AKA “Surfin’ on Jupiter’
Oh bother. The image showed in the preview. Here’s a link:
http://bit.ly/8WnDNE
Neat, thank you. And apologies about the preview plugin.