A chance satellite capture shows massive tsunamis are messier, more complex, and potentially more dangerous than scientists once believed. Credit: Shutterstock A satellite designed to measure the height of the ocean surface was in the right place at the right time when a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula sent a tsunami across the Pacific in late July. The spacecraft, known as the Surface Water Ocean Topography or SWOT satellite, recorded the first high resolution space-based