The ISS was over the Indian Ocean, southwest of Australia, when officer Ed Lu saw the Southern Lights, the Aurora Australis. He grabbed his digital camera and took several rapid fire photos, which were stiched together into a movie. It's cool.
Aurora Australis means "southern lights". Aurora Borealis is the "northern lights". But it's
the same thing. Basically, particles from the sun hit the Earth's magnetic-field all the time.
Every now and then there are a larger number of particles being scattered towards Earth,
following that some penetrate our atmosphere. These particles react with atoms in the atmosphere,
creating different colours.Green is the most common I believe.
Check out this website. It holds some info and some pictures.
Comments
rico
can you send me some info about Aurora Australis plese reply
Posted by: rico | September 9, 2003 11:13 PM
orange
rico,
Aurora Australis means "southern lights". Aurora Borealis is the "northern lights". But it's
the same thing. Basically, particles from the sun hit the Earth's magnetic-field all the time.
Every now and then there are a larger number of particles being scattered towards Earth,
following that some penetrate our atmosphere. These particles react with atoms in the atmosphere,
creating different colours.Green is the most common I believe.
Check out this website. It holds some info and some pictures.
Posted by: orange | October 8, 2003 05:46 PM
orange
Silly me, I forgot the site.
http://ast.leeds.ac.uk/haverah/spaseman/aurora.shtml
Posted by: orange | October 8, 2003 05:46 PM