Auroral Elements
Electrons rain down from the Earth's radiation belts, exciting atoms into radiative states along the way.
Electrons collide with atoms sending them into radiative states.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Conceptual Image Lab
Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
Scientists
- Nicola Fox (Johns Hopkins University/APL)
- Art Poland (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 26, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.