August 22, 2012 - Aurora from Above

CaliforniaMama · 08-22-2012, 10:30 AM

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

Cool perspective, isn't it, with the red light dancing on top of the green.

Sheldonrs · 08-22-2012, 12:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoppS8TIjc&safe=active

Ibby · 08-22-2012, 03:53 PM

I saw the aurora once from a plane flying over the pole. One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

ZenGum · 08-22-2012, 07:16 PM

Totally 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 · 08-22-2012, 08:28 PM

So cool.

08-22-2012, 12:22 PM	#2
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Aurora from The Andrews Sisters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KoppS8TIjc&safe=active __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

08-22-2012, 03:53 PM	#3
Ibby erika Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: "the high up north" Posts: 6,127	I saw the aurora once from a plane flying over the pole. One of the coolest things I've ever seen. __________________ not really back, you didn't see me, i was never here shhhhhh

08-22-2012, 07:16 PM	#4
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Totally on my bucket list. Seeing the aurora, that is. Seeing it from the space station would be $%&#ing awesome, but that's quite unlikely. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-22-2012, 08:28 PM	#5
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	So cool. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

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