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IMAGE Views of the Aurora from Space

Visualizations by Tom Bridgman Released on July 8, 2004
The IMAGE spacecraft observed intense auroral displays in the Fall of 2003 as the material from the coronal mass ejection swept past the Earth. The pressure against the Earth's magnetosphere caused it to dump more electrons into the upper atmosphere, creating auroral displays, as we see here over the South Pole. This is a view of the IMAGE data reprojected onto a model of the Earth.
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Movie of IMAGE's view of the solar storm.
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A snapshot of a low-intensity time in the storm. The bright linear structure in the upper left is an artifact created by the edge of the instrument field-of-view.
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A snapshot of a high-intensity time in the storm. The bright linear structure in the upper left is an artifact created by the edge of the instrument field-of-view.
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The bright point in the aurora moves along the auroral oval.

Visualization Credits

Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Harald Frey (University of California at Berkeley): Scientist
Michael Collier (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
William Steigerwald (NASA/GSFC): Writer
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Mission:
IMAGE

Data Used:
IMAGE/VIS
2004/10/29T05:44:53 - 2004/10/29T08:54:27
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This item is part of this series:
Halloween 2003 Solar Storms

Keywords:
SVS >> Magnetosphere
SVS >> South Pole
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Space Weather
SVS >> For Educators
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics >> Aurorae
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions >> Solar Activity >> Coronal Mass Ejections
SVS >> Visible Light Imaging

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0