While we didn’t have the best view of the Northern Lights around here last week when the big geomagnetic storm was hitting the Earth, some in the southern hemisphere certainly enjoyed the aurora. In fact an astronaut on the International Space Station took photos of the Southern Lights between Australia and Antarctica. The green hues and expansive vista are out of this world.
Courtesy: NASA, taken by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers
If you would like to see more neat images from that mission showing the northern or southern lights from space, check out this link. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/aurora-underfoot.html
NASA also has a great photo gallery of city lights at night across the world as seen from space. It really gives you a neat perspective on our footprint on the planet. The patterns are stunning and interesting. You can see them at this link. http://www.space.com/13380-photos-earth-cities-night-space.html
This post was written by Tony Schumacher on March 14, 2012
