This video helps you remember how precious this thing we live on is and how small a shadow we cast upon it. This truly is an opportunity to turn your brain off and absorb the power that is being wielded around you at all times that you have no way of perceiving.
Shot from the international space station. This time-lapse is a compilation of 16,000 images taken on the station.
OTHER PLANETS THAT HAVE POLAR AURORAE:
– Jupiter
– Jupiter’s moons
- Io, Europa, and Ganymede
– Saturn
– Venus
-Mars
– Learn More: wikipedia Auroras
LEARN ABOUT THE LIGHTS:
An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere. Aurora is classified as diffuse or discrete aurora. Most aurorae occur in a band known as the auroral zone[1][2] which is typically 3° to 6° in latitudinal extent and at all local times or longitudes. The auroral zone is typically 10° to 20° from the magnetic pole defined by the axis of the Earth’s magnetic dipole. During a geomagnetic storm, the auroral zone will expand to lower latitudes. The diffuse aurora is a featureless glow in the sky which may not be visible to the naked eye even on a dark night and defines the extent of the auroral zone. The discrete aurora are sharply defined features within the diffuse aurora which vary in brightness from just barely visible to the naked eye to bright enough to read a newspaper at night. Discrete aurorae are usually observed only in the night sky because they are not as bright as the sunlit sky. Aurorae occur occasionally poleward of the auroral zone as diffuse patches[3] or arcs (polar cap arcs[4]) which are generally invisible to the naked eye.
learn more here: wikipedia northern lights