Friday, November 11, 2011

What does the aurora borealis look like from above?

Living in Alaska, we see the aurora borealis several times every winter, but I've always wondered what it looks like from above - or even from space? Anyone know?|||Scroll down to the third photo...|||I don't think it would look the same, most likely dimmer because you would only see the light reflected off the earth through it rather than from the millions of stars in space.|||exactly the same homie|||I saw some pictures from NASA a very short time ago.|||They look just like they do from Earth, only suspended over the globe of the Earth instead of hanging in the sky.





http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/im鈥?/a>





You can see the vertical much better.|||check out nasas web site|||You can't see it from above.. You can only see it from below because of the way the diffusion of light through the natural gases in the atmosphere. Above just looks as it normally would

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