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Painted Sky: The Aurora
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.
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.
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.
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.
The following images were taken by the Polar Ionospheric X-Ray Imaging Experiment
and were obtained from PIXIE's CME
Auroral Effects page.
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.
The following images were taken by the
DMSP satellite.
The following images were collected by Franck Pettersen in his article
on the
Aurora Borealis, published in
Way North Magazine.
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Solar-Terrestrial
Physics Program and NASA.
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Last Updated: 8/17/99
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