The following images are from the Poker Flat Research Range located in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
The following images were taken by Jan Curtis of the Geophysical
Institute at the University of Alaska. View more of Jan Curtis' images by
going to his Aurora Page.
The following images were taken by Dick Hutchinson who lives in Circle, Alaska.
The following images were taken by Michael T. Dolan on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; more can be seen on his Aurora Page.
 Single Veil 84K |
 Two Veils 99K |
 Wavy Veil 95K |
 Green Veil Observed 139K |
 Lake Superior Aurora 155K |
 Bright Green Aurora 114K |
 Pink and Green Veils 115K |
The following images of the aurora australis were taken by David Miller and Craig Richardson and collected on the IPS Radio and Space Services Interesting Facts and Educational Material page.
 Pink with Trees 45K |
 Red with Trees 38K |
 Red-Yellow 24K |
 Red-Yellow 19K |
 Pink with Moon 24K |
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.
Visible-Light Image of Earth 52K |
VIS Low-Resolution Image 52K |
Zoomed Earth Image 48K |
A Global View of Earth 72K |
Sequence of VIS Images 60K |
Storm Onset 56K |
Coast-Hugging Aurora 60K |
Another Coast-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 Image 7/6/98 55K |
UVI Image 1/3/98 43K |
UVI Key Parameters 209K |
Polar Arc, 1/97 33K |
UVI Auroral Image 1/1/97 33K |
Substorm 4-Panel Seq. 64K |
Substorm 6-Panel Seq. 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 72K |
PIXIE Feb 10 1997 76K |
PIXIE Aug 22 1998 80K |
The following images were taken by the Dynamics Explorer-1 satellite's Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging experiment.
The following images were taken from space by the Space Shuttle and collected by Michael T. Dolan on his Aurora Page.
Homogeneous Arc 138K |
Red Aurora (S) 135K |
Red-Tipped Arcs (S) 120K |
Red-Tipped Arcs (N) 52K |
The following images were taken by the DMSP satellite.
Southern Lights 63K |
Aurora 191K |
The following images were collected by Franck Pettersen in his article on the Aurora Borealis, published in Way North Magazine.
Four Auroral Phases 49K |
Nuremberg Aurora, 1591 64K |
Fridjof Nansen Woodcut 152K |
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