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[lauralh]

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.

Comments

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

That's intense.

[girlstyle.livejournal.com]

I'm very put out by the fact that we're too equatorial to see these pretty pretty things.

[wurmwyd.livejournal.com]

Hi there!

[WHEW!!] Thank God, I thought the Vogons had made their first strike on the planet...

[sidspencer.livejournal.com]

hella prettier than the blocky plots mitch and i used to make for UVI and POLAR.

[jimbojones.livejournal.com]

Why is the ONE really really pretty image on earthbound the ONE image they don't have in high enough resolution to fill the damn screen?! Aiiieeee!

I loved the animation tho.