Launch_vernacotola_s.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000x761 pixels) - Scaled (77. Casa_main.jpg (JPEG Image, 864x587 pixels) - Scaled (99%) Launch_vernacotola.jpg (JPEG Image, 1009x768 pixels) - Scaled (80. C107-8414-8419.jpg (JPEG Image, 2540x800 pixels) - Scaled (49%) SDO_Earth_scale-EDIT2.jpg (JPEG Image, 975x1000 pixels) - Scaled (61%) Rosette_noFOV.jpg (JPEG Image, 864x864 pixels) - Scaled (67%) Stellar_bh_ill.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x600 pixels) Not the Great Pumpkin / 20 October 2010. Aystein-Lunde-Ingvaldsen3.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x579 pixels) IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora.
From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles. The IMAGE satellite captured this view of the aurora australis (southern lights) on September 11, 2005, four days after a record-setting solar flare sent plasma—an ionized gas of protons and electrons—flying towards the Earth. The ring of light that the solar storm generated over Antarctica glows green in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, shown in this image. The IMAGE observations of the aurora are overlaid onto NASA’s satellite-based Blue Marble image. From the Earth’s surface, the ring would appear as a curtain of light shimmering across the night sky. Like all solar storms, the September storm distorted the shape of the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth. Since 2000, IMAGE has provided insight into how the Earth’s powerful magnetic field protects the planet from solar winds. Image courtesy NASA Instrument(s): WISE2011-003-lg.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600x1600 pixels) - Scaled (36%)
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