Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Northern Lights

Three files feature the northern lights now.

Take the time to watch the NG video


  Spectacular Norway Northern Lights   National Geographic - March 21, 2012

Multicolored curtains of light fill the skies over northern Norway in a new

time-lapse video made from aurora images taken this month. Filmmakers

Claus and Anneliese Possberg used about 600 frames to create the video.






Aurora Over Iceland NASA - March 21, 2012






First auroras of Spring Spaceweather.com

It's a well-known scientific fact that equinoxes favor auroras.

True to form, March 20th began with the vernal equinox and

ended with this outburst of Spring-green over Tromso, Norway.