CaliforniaMama Wednesday Aug 22 11:30 AMAugust 22, 2012 - Aurora from Above
Here is what the Aurora Borealis looks like from the International Space Station.
Photograph courtesy NASA
Quote:
Auroras are produced when charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, and the colors depend on which types of atoms get hit. Oxygen usually generates green lights, but lower energy oxygen collisions or nitrogen atoms can create red glows. --National Geographic
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Cool perspective, isn't it, with the red light dancing on top of the green.
Sheldonrs Wednesday Aug 22 01:22 PMAurora from The Andrews Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoppS8TIjc&safe=active
Ibby Wednesday Aug 22 04:53 PMI saw the aurora once from a plane flying over the pole. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.
ZenGum Wednesday Aug 22 08:16 PMTotally on my bucket list.
Seeing the aurora, that is.
Seeing it from the space station would be $%&#ing awesome, but that's quite unlikely.
Griff Wednesday Aug 22 09:28 PMSo cool.
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