Part one in a two-part series on the Earth-sun connection.
False-color ultraviolet image shows brightening of Earth’s auroral oval last July 15, minutes after a magnetic storm struck our planet. The storm had erupted on the sun the previous day. The ultraviolet emissions, recorded by the IMAGE satellite, stem from energetic electrons bombarding molecular nitrogen in Earth’s atmosphere.
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