[:ja]シェーン・キンブロー宇宙飛行士が撮影した宇宙からのオーロラです。オーロラは、太陽からのプラズマ粒子が地球の磁力線に沿って極地方に向かって加速し、大気中の粒子と衝突して光る現象です。
美しいオーロラについては、以下の投稿でも取り上げています。
【宇宙からの地球絶景】【動画】NO.70: 月の入り、オーロラ、夜明け
【宇宙からの地球絶景】NO.56: オーストラリア近傍のオーロラ
【宇宙からの地球絶景】【動画】NO.41: オーロラ
参考文献： Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
ウェブ地球儀で地球俯瞰画像を見る： LiVEARTH
[Earthview Wonders] No.220: Aurora
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough captured from ISS beautiful aurora. Auroras are caused by the charged particles from the Sun accelerated along the magnetic field of the Earth raining down on polar regions.
I introduced them in the following posts.
[Earthview Wonders][Video] No.70: Moonset, Aurora and Dawn
[Earthview Wonders: NO.56: Aurora Near Australia
[Earthview Wonders][Video] NO.41: Aurora
Reference: Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:en][Earthview Wonders] No.220: Aurora
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough captured from ISS beautiful aurora. Auroras are caused by the charged particles from the Sun accelerated along the magnetic field of the Earth raining down on polar regions.
I introduced them in the following posts.
[Earthview Wonders][Video] No.70: Moonset, Aurora and Dawn
[Earthview Wonders: NO.56: Aurora Near Australia
[Earthview Wonders][Video] NO.41: Aurora
Reference: Shane Kimbrough’s Tweet
See earthview photo gallery with web-globe: LiVEARTH[:]