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*Lots of gorgeous photos coming from folks up north:
http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/au … _page5.htm
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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*Okay, I usually don't post just 1 item -- but I'll make an exception for this:
http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/au … ]Marquette Lighthouse and Aurorae
Taken July 25. That's a calendar-quality photo. Heck, they should submit it to National Geographic.
And I love lighthouses.
--Cindy
P.S.: Marquette Lighthouse is in Michigan.
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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040928.html]Rare purple aurora
*Striking pic. When I first saw it yesterday, it reminded me of a sci-fi image of a spaceship going into some sort of hyperdrive with the aurora as a "special effect." :laugh:
Anywho, apparently purplish aurorae are rare (I wouldn't know...have never lived far enough north to really see this phenomenon except once or twice, and then very faintly).
Something else: Article says auroras "rarely reach below 60 kilometers, and can range up to 1000 kilometers" -- wow.
Pic taken August 30 in Norway.
--Cindy
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