IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora : Image of the Day (2005)
2005 · Short film
Synopsis
From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth's poles. The image.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 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…
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