Wonders3 - Northern Lights

Title

Northern Lights

Latitude

63.1236

Longitude

-154.30535

Place

Alaska

Geocoding Status

The geocoder found no matches.

World_Time

Natural Wonders

Image_Url

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Link_Url

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Lights

Brief

Northern lights, or Aurora borealis brings together two mythological deities - Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, and Boreas, Greek god of the north wind - to describe an event witnessed mostly at night in the high northerly latitudes. An identical ph

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Description

The ever changing dance of lights belies the aurora's permanence. Though only parts of it can be seen at any time, and almost never during the day, the aurora borealis forms a 2,000-mile-wide auroral oval above the magnetic north pole day in and day out,

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What can dramatically change the oval are the occasional spikes in solar activity that turn the solar wind into a raging hurricane. Then, for a few days, the auroral oval flows toward the Equator and treats sky-gazers as far south as Mexico to midnight ex

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<img width='55px' height='38px' src='http://wondersoftheworld.idvsolutions.com/Shared%20Documents/thumbnails/Aurora.png'> Northern Lights Type: Natural Wonders Location: Alaska Built:

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