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An amazing video appeared on the World Wide Web recently from the International Space Station. By a delightful movie became a 60-year-old Italian engineer and explorer Paolo Nespoli, a member of the European space agency. The entry was received by an astronaut 15 September this year when the ISS reached its highest point of its orbit.
Material published on the official website of NASA, shows aurora borealis over northern Canada in numerous shades of green, purple and other colors. You might even think that this is not at all an aurora, which even from Earth not all of us are able to contemplate, but some difficult computer graphics. However, the video is genuine and, moreover, not subjected to any processing. At least so say representatives of the American national space agencies. The orbital solar panel is also visible in the frame. station.
The aurora, also called the northern lights, is luminescence of the upper atmosphere due to its interaction with a stream of ionized particles of the solar wind. It is noteworthy that this phenomenon is observed not only on Earth, but also on others planets with a magnetosphere. Glow around magnetic the poles were also seen by scientists on Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune
And it’s also a small clarification: powerful flashes on the Sun, which occurred in early September of this year, allowed to observe northern lights even for those who live relatively far from the polar circle, so today compare this heavenly illumination with what astronauts see from space, not only residents can Far North. And this, you see, makes this video still more interesting …
ISS Aurora
