Aurora Borealis
by Derya Gürer, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
This Aurora Borealis was captured in Northern Norway on February 21st, 2012 after a strong geomagnetic storm. Intense displays of the Aurora were visible in the polar regions following a long-duration M-class flare that began erupting on the Sun at 8:42 am ET on Thursday, January 19th, 2012.
Categories
- Atmospheric Sciences (884)
- Field (2851)
- Planetary and Solar System Sciences (137)
- Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (92)
Location
- Europe (3832)
- Northern Europe (913)
- Norway (160)
- Exact location (18.4766 E, 69.7401 N)
Tags
- arctic (86)
- aurora borealis (14)
- northern lights (12)
- solar storm (1)
- norway (20)
- polar regions (1)
- polar lights (1)
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Image properties
5184 × 3456 px;
image/jpeg; 3.8 MB
Camera:
Canon EOS 7D
Taken on 21
February
2012
Submitted on 13 March 2012
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Derya Gürer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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