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IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora
published by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
This NASA site hosts a composite image of the southern lights Aurora over the South Pole. A link enables visitors to view a video of this aurora.

The image of the Aurora is overlaid on a NASA "Blue Marble" image also captured by satellite. Text describes the distortion of Earth's magnetic field by the stream of protons and electrons from the sun.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pic...
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Solar System
= Earth
Electricity & Magnetism
- Magnetic Fields and Forces
Other Sciences
- Geoscience
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Reference Material
= Article
- Audio/Visual
= Image/Image Set
= Movie/Animation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- image/jpeg
- video/shockwave
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Does not have a copyright, license, or other use restriction.
Keywords:
Southern lights, solar wind
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created December 24, 2012 by Ed Lee
Record Updated:
August 22, 2020 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update
when Cataloged:
March 16, 2011
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AIP Format
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 2005), WWW Document, (https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora).
AJP/PRST-PER
IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 2005), <https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora>.
APA Format
IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora. (2011, March 16). Retrieved June 8, 2025, from NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora
Chicago Format
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora. Greenbelt: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, March 16, 2011. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora (accessed 8 June 2025).
MLA Format
IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora. Greenbelt: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, 2005. 16 Mar. 2011. 8 June 2025 <https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora>.
BibTeX Export Format
@misc{ Title = {IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora}, Publisher = {NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center}, Volume = {2025}, Number = {8 June 2025}, Month = {March 16, 2011}, Year = {2005} }
Refer Export Format

%T IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora %D March 16, 2011 %I NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center %C Greenbelt %U https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora %O image/jpeg

EndNote Export Format

%0 Electronic Source %D March 16, 2011 %T IMAGE Spacecraft Pictures Aurora %I NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center %V 2025 %N 8 June 2025 %8 March 16, 2011 %9 image/jpeg %U https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/6226/image-spacecraft-pictures-aurora


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