Aurora: Media
atmospheric phenomenon
Videos
Aurora borealis is also called the northern lights.
Video: © Brian Owens/Reuters
Aurora australis is also known as the southern lights.
Video: NASA
Images
A display of aurora australis, or southern lights, manifesting itself as a glowing...
NASA/Johnson Space Center/Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory
Earth's full North Polar auroral oval, in an image taken in ultraviolet light by...
NASA
Jupiter's northern and southern auroras, as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope....
Photo AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL (NASA photo # PIA01254, STScI-PRC98-04)
Jupiter's auroral arcs at its north and south poles, as imaged by the Hubble Space...
AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL
Two close-up views of Jupiter's northern aurora, recorded by the Galileo spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01602)
The layers of Earth's atmosphere, showing heights of characteristic atmospheric phenomena.
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