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A Colorful Aurora Paints the Night Sky

A powerful geomagnetic storm caused a display of light that was visible unusually far from Earth’s poles.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS day-night band data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published October 16, 2024
Data acquired October 11, 2024

Source:
NOAA-20 > VIIRS