Northern Lights
Here is a picture of the northern lights that a teacher from Brooklyn took. Mr. Nidzgorski took this last night. I will keep looking and see if I can get a great picture like this.
posted by Mrs. McMinn @ 2:18 PM
Monday, September 22, 2008
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- Name: Mrs. McMinn
- Location: Stamford, CT
I am an eighth grade Earth science teacher at Scofield Magnet Middle School. I also coordinate the after school program in cooperation with ROSCCO.
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12 Comments:
Great picture...why is it green?
That is a good question. Can someone find out some information about the northern lights? Can you see the lights everywhere in the northern hemisphere? Why or why not? What causes the different colors?
WOW that picture looked amazing! it makes me wish i was there. anyway about the northern lights i think the different color have to do with the sun's rays hitting the Earth. i learned this in the movie we whatched about the development of Earth. any way hope your having a great time.:)
Angel v.
Angel - I think the entire class should come, although I have to warn you it is cold. You are correct that the photons from the northern lights start from the sun, and are drawn by the solar winds to the magnetic poles of the earth. We did see this in the video. The color is due to the gases in the upper atmosphere, and how high these gases are when the photons collide with them.
This is a very nice picture and a great angle.
But I still don't get why it has a certain color or a varitey of colors?
Does the sun have to reflect off of something to make it it's color, perhaps water, otherwise how would it appear in the sky?
Marissa I.
Wow it is a really pretty picture it will probably be hard to get a good picture like that. I also wonder if the northern lights can be a different color.I also wonder how its made?
-Francine B. Mr. Santorella
The Northern lights look amazing!
That is a very nice picture. It would be very cool if we could take a class trip to Churchill. The Northern Ligts, also know as Aurora, become more and more visible the closer they are to the magnetic north pole. They are created by the collision of particles from the earth's magnetosphere and atoms from the atmosphere. I think that the color is mostly green because of the particles colliding together.
Lukas R.
The scientific name for the Northern Lights is Aurora Borealis. It is created from charged particles from Earth's magnetosphere.
Cailin B. room #213
I think that the different colors of the Northern Lights have something to do with the spectrum's of the atoms of the light that come and hit the Earth's magnetosphere.
Rony I. Mrs. Mcminn
Very good comments on the northern lights. I intend to give more information on how they are formed when I get to see them better. Tonight it was too cloudy to see them. Hopefully the clouds will go away soon.
Hi Ms. McMInn!
I hope you are continuing to enjoy your working trip! Wat an exciting experience!
I think that the northern lights have something to do with the ionosphere?!
Tell us more!
Mr. Forde :-)
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