Lights Below: The Aurora from Space

Lights Below: The Aurora from Space

NEW: The following images from Polar show the aurora during the space weather events of July 13 and July 15-16, 2000, respectively. The first two are courtesy of Greg Shirah, and the second two are courtesy of VIS and John Sigwarth.

13 July 2000
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15 July 2000
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16 July 2000
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16 July 2000
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The following images were taken by U.S. astronauts on the Space Shuttle and have been collected on the NASA Image Exchange (NIX). Each thumbnail links to a page at NIX that contains information about the image and a link to a larger-size version.

SL3-130-3130	SL3-130-3131	STS028-24-019A	STS039-23-020	STS039-23-036
STS039-25-006	STS039-342-026	STS039-377-013	STS045-21-002	STS045-29-001
STS045-29-002	STS045-29-003	STS045-29-020	STS045-31-012	STS045-32-003
STS045-32-015	STS045-32-020	STS045-32-024	STS045-34-022	STS047-20-015
STS51B-116-005	STS056-36-008	STS059-50-011	STS059-52-029	STS059-58-018
STS060-09-036	STS068-08-029

These images have been acquired with the Earth Camera that is one of three
cameras in the Visible Imaging System (VIS). The design and assembly of the
VIS was performed by the VIS team at The University of Iowa. The VIS is one of
twelve instruments on the Polar satellite of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The Principal Investigator is Dr. L. A. Frank and the Instrument Scientist and
Manager is Dr. John B. Sigwarth.

VIS Image of Earth 52K	VIS Low-Res Image 52K	Zoomed Earth 48K	Global View 72K	VIS Sequence 60K
Storm Onset 56K	Coast-Hugging 60K	Another Hugger 64K

The following images were taken by the POLAR Ultraviolet Imager camera and
were obtained from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Plasma Physics
Branch.

UVI 7/6/98 55K	UVI 1/3/98 43K	UVI Key-Param 209K	Polar Arc, 1/97 33K	UVI 1/1/97 33K
Substorm 4-Panel 64K	Substorm 6-Panel 84K

The following images were taken by the Polar Ionospheric X-Ray Imaging Experiment and were obtained from PIXIE's CME Auroral Effects
page.

PIXIE Jan 10 1997
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PIXIE Feb 10 1997
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PIXIE Aug 22 1998
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The following images were taken by the Dynamics Explorer-1 satellite's Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging experiment.

Auroral Sequence, DE1 72K	March 1989 Aurora 56K	March 1989 Re-mapped 74K	Theta Arc Feature 212K	11/23/81 Auroral Oval 92K
Galactic Plane 86K	The Geocorona 75K	Auroral Crowns 86K	Late in a Substorm 40K	Great Substorm, 6/13/83 96K