3 Mysteries Solved by Extraterrestrial Tsunamis

Earth isn t the only planet that gets rocked by giant tsunamis. In fact, giant waves on other planets have helped us solve a few mysteries about our solar system. This video was sponsored by Skillshare. The first 1000 people who click the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium: https://skl.sh/scishowspace03211 Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Sources: Philip Nicholson (https://astro.cornell.edu/philip-d-nicholson), planetary scientist at Cornell University https://www.pnas.org/content/117/50/31558 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/giant-tsunamis-battered-the-coastlines-of-an-early-martian-ocean https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25106 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL087221 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6489/405.abstract https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1413/giant-cloud-disruption-unnoticed-for-35-years-discovered-on-venus/ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5972/1470.abstract https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103516000373 Image Sources https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17173_Titan_resonances_in_Saturn%27s_C_ring.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn%27s_ring_plane.svg https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2016/07/Gravity_waves_on_Venus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:097_101_surface_date_2016_07_12_04_05.jpg#/media/File:097_101_surface_date_2016_07_12_04_05.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17173_Titan_resonances_in_Saturn%27s_C_ring.jpg#/media/File:PIA17173_Titan_resonances_in_Saturn%27s_C_ring.jpg