X-Ray Images of the North Polar Region (WMS)

  • Released Wednesday, June 1, 2005
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Here are X-rays images (shown on the same brightness scale) of the north polar region obtained by Chandra HRC-I on different days, showing large variability in soft (0.1-10.0 keV) X-ray emissions from Earth s aurora. Note that the images are not snap shots, but are approximately 20-min scans of the northern auroral region in the HRC-I field-of-view. The brightness scale in Rayleighs (R) assumes an average effective area of 40 cm2. The day-night terminator at an altitude of 0 km is displayed with lighting. The day-night terminator at an altitude of 100 km is shown by the blue line.

X-ray emissions from Earth's aurora.

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, June 1, 2005.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.

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