"The precipitating electrons that cause the green picket fence are thus aurora, though this occurs outside the
auroral zone, so it's indeed unique."
There are also ESA's three Swarm satellites (earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ swarm) that I'm currently using for space weather research, mainly for measuring
auroral currents and atmospheric density.
Ian Griffin, director of the Otago Museum in New Zealand, shared snippets of his experience on Twitter saying, 'Nice trip through the southern
auroral zone tonight on Flight To the Lights.
Special chapters are devoted to the aurora as fire, aurora dancers, or
auroral movement.
We will be looking at how it interacts with the solar wind (charged particles emerging from the sun) and creates polar
auroral glow.
Get between 30 mins and an hour notice of any good
auroral activity.
John MacDonald, author of The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend, recounts Inuit legends of the Arctic Universe, and Eric Donovan, University of Calgary Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, discusses leading-edge
auroral research.
This indicates that
auroral activity replaces solar-like coronal activity on brown dwarfs and smaller objects, he said.
The process is different from the one that drives
auroral displays such as the Northern Lights on Earth.
NASA scientists were able to use the Hubble Space Telescope to collect more than seven hours of data about the
auroral belts on the Ganymede moon, which are caused by its magnetic fields.
Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common, as seen here.
NASA hopes the mission will illuminate mysteries such as the origin of
auroral curls, which look like cream swirling in a cup of coffee.
The topics include solar cycle changes in the photochemistry of the ionosphere and thermosphere, traveling atmospheric disturbance and gravity wave coupling in the thermosphere, comparative studies of theoretical models in the equatorial ionosphere, inductive-dynamic coupling of the ionosphere with the thermosphere and the magnetosphere, and the model-based inversion of the
auroral process.
The team's findings provide a "smoking gun" for the theory that Saturn's
auroral displays are often caused by the dramatic collapse of its "magnetic tail."
