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Astro Bob blog: Aurora: The Big Picture From 518 Miles Up

What an amazing image! Those cresting wave forms? That's the aurora seen from 518 miles up by the Suomi-NPP satellite just hours after this month's winter solstice. Read post here.

3055931+Aurora Alberta VIR Dec22_2016_FEA.jpg — The Suomi NPP satellite photographed this view of the aurora on December 22, 2016, when the northern lights stretched across northern Canada. Click for a hi-res image. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen / Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership

By Robert King

December 28, 2016 at 1:04 PM

What an amazing image! Those cresting wave forms? That's the aurora seen from 518 miles up by the Suomi-NPP satellite just hours after this month's winter solstice. Read post here .

By Robert King