Although there were some good moves in individual names (Evergreen and Suntech both up 21%, SunPower up 15%) as a group they did not outperform as much as one might expect considering their prior massive underperformance.
Here are 1 day and 6 month charts, I've also included the CLAYMORE/MAC GLOBAL Solar ETF (TAN):
These are dynamic charts so the example will only be visible on the 1 day until March 11. Both charts from Yahoo Finance.