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Credit & Copyright: Mia Stölnacke
Explanation:
It appeared, momentarily, like a 50-km tall banded flag.
In mid-March of 2015, an energetic
Coronal Mass Ejection
directed toward a clear magnetic channel to Earth led to one of the more intense
geomagnetic storms of recent years.
A visual result was wide spread
auroras being seen over many countries near
Earth's magnetic poles.
Captured over Kiruna,
Sweden, the
image features
an unusually straight
auroral curtain with the
green color
emitted low in the
Earth's atmosphere, and red many kilometers higher up.
It is unclear where the rare
purple aurora originates,
but it might involve an unusual
blue aurora at an even lower altitude than the green,
seen superposed with a much higher red.
Now past
Solar Minimum, colorful
nights
of
auroras over Earth are likely to increase.
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 January 14 Á Dragon Aurora over Iceland
- APOD: 2024 January 3 Á A SAR Arc from New Zealand
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- The SAR and the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 November 5 Á Creature Aurora Over Norway
- APOD: 2023 October 22 Á Ghost Aurora over Canada
- APOD: 2023 April 19 Á Auroral Storm over Lapland