Aurora from Above | Out of doors My Window


Aurora from Above | Out of doors My Window
Aurora borealis (picture from Wikimedia Commons, at the beginning taken by means of Marcelo Quinan on Flickr CC)

3 January 2024

As I discussed ultimate month, regardless that iciness is the most productive time of 12 months to peer the aurora borealis it’s uncommon if no longer unattainable to peer it any place however within the some distance north. The picture at best was once taken in Norway whilst the only beneath offers a special point of view from an plane at 36,000 ft above Canada.

Aurora Borealis as noticed from an airplace 36,000 feet above Canada, 22 January 2004 (picture from Wikimedia Commons)

In each circumstances the pictures had been taken within our environment beneath the aurora. What if it is advisable see the aurora from above?

On 21 January 2016 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took pictures of the aurora from the World Area Station (ISS) because it traveled over Canada. Right here’s what the aurora seems like from above in his sequence of pictures.

Aurora borealis over Canada, noticed from ISS on 21 Jan 2016 (pictures from Wikimedia Commons)

The ISS additionally noticed the aurora australis, the southern lighting close to the South Pole, in July 2012.

Aurora australis from ISS, 15 July 2012 (picture from Wikimedia Commons)

Need to know if there can be an aurora quickly and the place it’ll display up? Take a look at right here for NOAA’s Aurora Viewline predition for this night and the next day.

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