Auroras at night. Black marble satellite image of the Aurora Australis (Southern lights) over Antarctica at night. Aurora are atmospheric phenomena that occur when solar wind particles are directed towards the Earth's magnetic poles and collide with atmospheric atoms,emitting light. Data acquired by the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite,over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012 | |
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