Auroras painted the sky green

Despite the fact that November 7 was not a geomagnetic storm, the sky in the Swedish national Park Abisko is still flooded with green light of the polar lights. "Extensive auroras danced across the sky. It was a great night! The green glow was visible even through the clouds," says Chad Blakely from the organization Lights over Lapland, whose automatic web camera captured this picture.

This event occurred not during, but between two geomagnetic storms — 5 and November 10. For a few hours in a magnetic field of the Earth was cracked, and leaked to her the solar wind has done its job.

The Aurora arises from the interaction of a planet's magnetosphere with charged solar wind particles. Glow magnetic shell was also discovered on Mars, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, but in each case differed some features.

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