The Aurora Borealis is made when storms on the the sun form solar winds, or large streams of charged particles streaming toward the earth.These streams could have upward of ten million megawatts of electrical power. That is enough power to light up Los Angeles. It generally takes about three days for these streams of particles to reach the earth's upper atmosphere, or ionosphere. When these charged particles hit the earth's atmosphere, they excite the atoms contained in the atmosphere. These excited atoms have a higher energy state that usual and so want to get back to a more normal energy state. The excited atoms give off excess energy in the form of heat, or the case of the Aurora Borealis, light. The trillions of excited atoms give off …show more content…
Ionic Nitrogen produces the blue light and neutral Nitrogen gives off the red-purple and the rippled edges. Imagine if the atmosphere were made of Neon gas and Sodium gas. We would see red-orange and yellow auroras!
The aurora can be seen most strongly at the poles of the Earth. In the north, it is called Aurora Borealis and in the south, it is called Aurora Australias. Of the two poles, the aurora can be seen the strongest near the arctic circle in the Northern Hemisphere. The reason that the Aurora can only be seen at the poles has to do with how the Earth's magnetic field acts. The Earth has a metal core and acts much like a bar magnet with two poles and a magnetic field. Remember those charged particles that come from the sun and hit the atmosphere? Those charged particles get sucked into the Earth's magnetic field and are then channeled toward the poles, where they are channelled toward a ring around each pole. The charged particles are trapped in the loops of the magnetic field and are then carried toward the poles, where the particles hit the atmosphere and create the aurora that we see.
Is the aurora only found on Earth? No, not by any stretch of the imagination. Recently, scientists discovered that Jupiter has its own aurora. Using the Hubble Telescope, they were able to find out more about this phenomenon. They found that the aurora on Jupiter is not
Hercules is a large and prominent constellation. It is visible from the Northern Hemisphere from April to November. Despite its large size, Hercules does not have any bright stars. As a result only one or two of the stars of Hercules are visible from cities. I chose Hercules because I have heard his story before, but I did not know it well and wanted to know it better.
Hercules is one of the largest constellations but doesn’t have many brightly lit stars which makes is hard to see in cities. This constellation is better viewed with the naked eye because of how dull its stars are. Hercules is located in the southern hemisphere. Hercules contains a cluster of over 500,000 stars called the M-13 cluster. In mythology Hercules was believed to kill the Dragon, the guardian of the garden of Hesperides.
Today I am here to inform you about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) and its intentions.
Homer Hickam was a teenage boy from a mining town in West Virginia called Coalwood. He inspired to build rockets when he seen the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, streak across the stars. With his friends and the local nerd, Homer sets out to do just that but with many errors and trials. Along with the town, Homer's father thought they were wasting their time with their rockets. He wanted Homer to be a coal miner just like everyone else but Homer knew he didn't belong there. As time went on, some people from town became interested in seeing the homemade missiles launch into the sky. The boys became popular and were known as the "Rocketboys" around town.
Once the Sun’s energy reaches Earth it is either absorbed by something or reflected. Objects which absorb the energy convert it into heat. Some objects like green plants take some of the energy and convert it into a stored form of energy such as sugars. This absorbed energy is what ultimately drives the climate. If the energy is not absorbed it’s then reflected back into the atmosphere. This is what happens to the Sun’s energy once it reaches Earth.
Orion is my favorite constellation because it is one of the easiest to find and most recognizable. This makes it one of the most popular constellations. Orion's belt includes the three brightest stars in the sky. In the Northern Hemisphere, Orion is a fall and winter constellation, visible from November to February. One of Orion's "stars" is actually a nebula, the Orion nebula.
1.Drive to the Miles canyon bridge (Miles Canyon Road, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) for a view of the northern lights and your place in this leg of the
As Clarice Lispector was writing what would become her last literary creation, The Hour of the Star, little did she know that while her body was plagued with the devastations of cancer, her mental struggle for peace and grace in death would inspire her most renowned novel. Perhaps it is because of those circumstances, she created a novel with intuitive reflections on both life and death, as seen through the life of the main character, Macabea. The story is narrated by Rodrigo S.M., and although Rodrigo attempts to maintain a neutral stance, he is often conflicted by his own perceptions and feelings. At the book’s commencement Rodrigo spends quite some time explaining that while the story is mainly about a woman,
On the other hand, a tornado, which is a violently rotating winds with air column like a funnel shape, forms on land and extends downward from the cloud to the ground. The tornadoes form by the convergence of cold and warm air currents. The tornadoes are associated with heavy rain, large hail, strong cloud and ground lightning. Tornadoes have been found in all continents except Antarctica. A large number of tornadoes have been seen in US Midwest, such as Oklahoma, Missouri (Hurricane vs. Tornado) (Hurricanes: Science and Society:
The U.S. gets about 800 Tornadoes a year (According to Spencer Adkins meteorologist on channel thirteen). Then there is this place called Tornado ally. That is were tornadoes form the most, and they get the biggest ones there to. The place called Tornado ally is in the Mid Western. Next, hurricanes form mostly near oceans. The reason they form there is they need warm water to help them form. Hurricanes are made from water and wind, so when the warm and clod water starts to be picked up it helps into form the hurricane. So that is why they form near. Or in the water.
There are many ancient myths surrounding thunder and lightning One example is the Native American belief of a giant bird called the thunder Bird that would create storms. There are some different variations of the thunderbird between the tribes but the depictions are usually similar. It is depicted as a large bird that is capable of creating storms and thunder while it is flying. The clouds are said to be pulled together by the beats of its wing while the thunder is the sounds of its wings clapping. The natives believed that the eyes of the thunderbird were so bright that when it blinked it created sheet lightning.
Tornadoes don't happen in every part of the world. Tornadoes are mostly found in the United States. There have been tornadoes recorded in Western Australia.
The Northern Lights are the result of the interaction between solar winds and atomic particles in the atmosphere.
In the novel Light in August, Joe Christmas and Joanna Burden are extremely damaged individuals. Both characters were raised in turbulent environments with an emphasis on religion. The sins they committed had a profound impact on them. They knew that their behavior was wrong but they were compelled to continue. Religion became a mental prison for them. A prison that they created but that they would never escape alive. Although Joe and Joanna viewed religion in completely different ways, they both lacked the capacity to forgive themselves because of their upbringing.
The solar wind containing these hot gases races toward the edges of the solar system, and smash in to the magnetosphere. The magnetosphere protects the earth by deflecting most of the solar wind around the planet. Trillions of these charged particles mange to get through and project from the North and South poles. Energy released in this fashion excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. These formations are called an aurora. The aurora borealis, which are visible in Alaska, are a result of this sort of space storm.