File:Auroras over North America.jpg

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Deutsch: Bild der Aurora borealis vom frühen Morgen des 8. Oktobers 2012, aufgenommen mit dem "Tag-Nacht-Band" (DNB, 505 bis 890 Nanometer – hauptsächlich sichtbares Licht von grün bis nahem ultraviolett) der Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) an Bord des Satelliten Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP). Die Lichter im Bild ziehen sich über die kanadischen Provinzen Quebec und Ontario und sind Teil des Gesamtovals, das sich durch einen geomagnetischen Sturm bis in mittlere Breiten hinab ausdehnte.
English: Using the “day-night band” (DNB, 505 to 890 nanometres – primarily visible light from green to near visible infrared) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite acquired this view of the aurora borealis early on the morning of October 8, 2012. The northern lights stretch across Canada’s Quebec and Ontario provinces in the image, and are part of the auroral oval that expanded to middle latitudes because of a geomagnetic storm.
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Author Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon
Camera location51° 21′ 00″ N, 80° 09′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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