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CaliforniaMama 08-03-2011 09:48 AM
August 3, 2011 Aurora Australis
 
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This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was most likely caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24, 2010. The [International Space Station] was located over the Southern Indian Ocean at an altitude of 350 kilometers (220 miles), with the astronaut observer most likely looking towards Antarctica (not visible) and the South Pole.
via NASA

Trilby 08-03-2011 09:50 AM
'coronal mass ejection' sounds so dirty.

CaliforniaMama 08-03-2011 09:52 AM
This picture actually looks better as a thumbnail, but it is still very striking.

I learned something new: at the North Pole these are called aurora borealis and at the South Pole they are called aurora australis.

I hope you all don't mind me posting so many pictures. I love pictures! I don't mean to be taking over or anything.

CaliforniaMama 08-03-2011 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 748271)
'coronal mass ejection' sounds so dirty.
It definitely looks like some kind of ejection, too.

Sundae 08-03-2011 09:53 AM
I'd so love to see either the Northern or Southern Lights.
A lifetime ambition, probably not going to be realised.

If'n I'm going to be picky, it would be the Aurora Australis from Antartica.
Serenaded by Neil Finn.

Coign 08-03-2011 09:57 AM
Growing up in Northern Minnesota you would see them at least once a year in the winter time. If you were a night owl I would say bout 2-3 times each winter you would see them.

CaliforniaMama 08-03-2011 10:13 AM
They are very magical, like an orchestra of light the way they dance across the sky.

I saw them while in the Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, in the spring.

Clodfobble 08-03-2011 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama
I hope you all don't mind me posting so many pictures. I love pictures! I don't mean to be taking over or anything.
Absolutely not! I'm glad someone has been keeping it going. You're awesome.

BigV 08-03-2011 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama
I hope you all don't mind me posting so many pictures. I love pictures! I don't mean to be taking over or anything.
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 748286)
Absolutely not! I'm glad someone has been keeping it going. You're awesome.
It's no great show of intellectual courage to agree with Clodfobble, and I do, enthusiastically. Please continue!

Sundae 08-03-2011 12:12 PM
Ditto!

classicman 08-03-2011 01:30 PM
thirdededed

You go 'Mama

glatt 08-03-2011 03:28 PM
Keep these pictures coming!

Gravdigr 08-03-2011 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 748271)
'coronal mass ejection' sounds so dirty.
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Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama (Post 748273)
It definitely looks like some kind of ejection, too.
Oh alright. That was me. I spent the night at Baby's house that night.

:D

Aliantha 08-03-2011 06:14 PM
I agree. Keep going CM. :)

CaliforniaMama 08-03-2011 09:47 PM
Aw, gee, thanks you guys.:)

BigV 08-04-2011 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 748356)
Oh alright. That was me. I spent the night at Baby's house that night.

:D
Oh no... does that make you my sun?

Gravdigr 08-05-2011 03:23 PM
Not your sun...my sin.

:p:


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