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Recently, however, NASA and university scientists looking at the Earth's northern and southern auroras were surprised to find they aren't mirror images of each other, as was once thought.
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www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/dueling_aurora...
www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/dueling_auroras.html
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EARTH'S AURORAS MAKE RARE JOINT APPEARANCE IN A FEATURE FILM ... Scientists using NASA's Polar spacecraft have captured the first-ever movie of auroras dancing simultaneously around both of Earth's polar regions.
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eiger.physics.uiowa.edu/~vis/conjugate_aurora/
eiger.physics.uiowa.edu/~vis/conjugate_aurora/
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Auroras: Paintings in the Sky; The aurora site at San Francisco's Exploratorium. This site offers a self-guided lesson on the aurora, links to other aurora sites, and suggestions for teachers on how ... This site presents a series of "interwoven" stories about the Sun-Earth connection as manifested in the Earth's aurora.
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www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/spa/aurora.html
www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/spa/aurora.html
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Auroras, from ORRERY: the Solar System in action. Ghostly display linking earth to the sun. ... If these head towards the Earth as part of the solar wind, the auroras produced are particularly impressive! In fact they can even be seen as far south from the Arctic as England. [Image: SOHO/LASCO]
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www.harmsy.freeuk.com/auroras.html
www.harmsy.freeuk.com/auroras.html
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Scientists using NASA's Polar spacecraft have captured the first-ever movie of auroras dancing simultaneously around both of Earth's polar regions.
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www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011025aurora.html
www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011025aurora.html
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As well as revealing the vast size and speed of these rotating plasmas of ionized gas, the team has pinpointed how space tornadoes kick-start the auroras we see on Earth.
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090424-space-t...
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090424-space-tornadoes-auroras.html
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This is the Aurora Page from Michigan Tech featuring Aurora images and links to other Aurora Resources ... The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere: Information about the Earth's magnetosphere and includes several pages with not-too-technical information on the physics of the aurora and history of auroral observation.
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www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/
www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/
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A few times a day, a gigantic explosion shakes the Earth's magnetic shield, triggering a chain of events that lights up the polar skies with dazzling auroras. These explosions are substorms, and how they happen has long been ... Galileo described these auroras as sunlight reflected in vapours rising from the Earth, while ...
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www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.800-auroras-wha...
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.800-auroras-what-powers-the-greatest-light-show-on-earth.html
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Coronal Holes: A brief solar wind gust from the indicated small coronal hole could buffet Earth's magnetic field on or about August 7th. ... ARIZONA AURORAS: Auroras in Arizona are rare, right? Maybe not as rare as you think. During a geomagnetic storm on July 22nd, Chris Schur of Payson, Arizona, took this picture of...
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hea-www.harvard.edu/hrc.ARCHIVE/2004/2004216.000000-200...
hea-www.harvard.edu/hrc.ARCHIVE/2004/2004216.000000-2004216.240000/SpaceWeather/
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