Just when we thought that the northern lights (aurora borealis) couldn't get any more exciting, NASA surprises us with a video of this natural phenomenon, which has published a video showing the characteristic reddish-greenish light that usually illuminates the sky of the North and South Poles , we admire from the air, and in 4K technology. Check out what the Northern Lights look like from space!
You want to know how it is Northern Lights to see from space? With breathtaking footage of it natural phenomenon he delighted us like no other than the US space agency Us. She published a video in technology 4K, which she recorded International Space Station (ISS).
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The modularly built 450-ton space station orbits the Earth at an average speed 27,600 km/h, namely in an orbit somewhere between 330 and 430 kilometers above the ground. It circles the Earth in about an hour and a half. For more than 15 years, he has been providing us with fascinating shots, and even the latest one, which captured the northern lights at work, does not disappoint. And what exactly is the Northern Lights? A case of atoms that glow in our atmosphere. This happens when charged particles from the Sun's surface fly into them and get trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. Because of this, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements of the atmosphere glow characteristically greenish and reddish.
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