What is Aurora?
Aurora, the northern light, is a collision between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth 's atmosphere which is predominantly seen in the high attitude area like Antarctic or Alaska region. Aurora usually appears in many colours while pale green and pink are the most common colours. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights also appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.
Aurora is also called ‘Polar Light’ since polar means the area near the Arctic or Antarctic Circles and Aurora usually appears in those areas. In addition, the polar light is also called Arsarnerit in Greenland, which can be translated as ‘playing balls’ or ‘children born too early’ and the origin behind this word is quite interesting. People in Greenland used to think that if they whistle while staring at aurora, the aurora comes close to them and if they bark hardly like dogs, the aurora disappears. It is also explained that the aurora appears on the sky when the dead souls are playing ball with walrus skulls. There are several interesting old myths because of aurora’s unique and mysterious look and people back then didn’t have any knowledge behind aurora. In ancient times, lots of people were very afraid of the polar light so it was common that they never let children outside during dark night and giant light flames of the polar light spread across the sky. If they didn’t, they thought the light would swoop down and grab the children’s heads for ball playing.
2. What cause aurora?
The aurora is a phenomenon of Earth’s high atmosphere that typically occurs at al...
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...mous for the polar light. According to the official Yellowknife website, Yellowknife is a city with a population about 20,000 and it is built with small towns and kindness. It is known for beautiful aurora due to its geographical circumstances such as flat topography and fewer geographical obstacles for aurora. Therefore, Yellowknife has much higher chance of clear weather, especially during wintertime, and this allows people to have better possibility for seeing the northern light.
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland is also one of the great places for the northern light. This place has more than 300 clear nights over 365 days (a year) and usually, from September to the mid April is the best season for watching the aurora. It is known for very clear and bright northern lights that are clearly showing and visible even in the middle of capital city with a lot of streetlights.
...nd beam effect from the composition with the lighter hues in order to create the visual experience from frozen light in the piece.
Larry Watson, in “Montana 1948”, uses the motif of light and silence in many ways to develop, clarify and reinforce ideas about truth and injustice, and portray the nature of some characters. He illustrates the injustice in Bentrock through the motif of light and then demonstrates to the reader the occurrence of something wrong through the motif of silence. The motif of light also sometimes assists the motif of silence to emphasize the significance of the event.
Now that the history is covered, I can get down to the nitty gritty of how they are able to appear in the sky. Auroras are caused by the collision of e...
Lightning is a natural electric force that I chose. The cause of lightning requires to types of charges negative and positive. A storm cloud is divided into two parts top being being positive and the bottom being negative. The reason for lighting to happen is because of this thing called charge separation which one positive charge and one negative charge split in half. Up to millions of water droplets are contained in one storm cloud. Water from the ground evaporates, and rises from the ground and goes up to the cloud rises up and comes together as it goes up to the cloud. The clouds collides with the moisture and then go up into the cloud. When they hit, the electrons get taken off the droplets, making the negative electrons turn into a positive electron. The moisture will always look for cold temperatures at a higher altitude. At a cold temperature the water will freeze. The particles then come together and form a region that’s inside the water. The frozen portion of the water of moisture becomes negatively charged and the outer droplets which gives it a more positive charge. The currents inside the cloud rip the protons off the droplets and move them inside the cloud and goes to the positive side. The frozen particles which contain the negative charges are then moved to the bottom half. Making the clouds polarized. The mechanism is what causes the polarization of the storm clouds. A storm cloud becomes polarized when one positive charge moved to the top of the clouds and one negative charges moving towards the bottom of the cloud.
The best time to visit is the changing of the seasons from summer to winter. The leaves turn to different colors. The beauty of the
To many outsiders the Arctic is pictured as a deserted, blank piece of land with no life. Little did they know that the Arctic Region is actually inhabited by many native Alaskan groups, and that still to this day continue practicing their subsistence lifestyle. Native Alaskan groups such as the Gwich'in Indians, Inupiat Eskimos, Yup'ik and Aleut still depend on the geographic features of the Arctic. For not only their subsistence lifestyle, but also the preservation of their culture.
Many living organisms in nature display fluorescent pigments. More than 180 different species of fluorescent fishes have been identified. The red fluorescence of ruby is caused by trivalent chromium, Divalent manganese accounts for the red or orange fluorescence in calcite and also for the green fluorescence of willemite. Natural aurora is another effect of fluorescence. The molecules and ions that are formed in high-altitude nuclear explosions and rocket-borne electron gun experiments, have a fluorescent response to light.
Hope has the incredible ability to make or break someone. People are always told to make large goals in school and employment, and try to reach those ambitions no matter how far they are. Hope is the motivation behind accomplishing dreams, but it also has the ability to break people who have hoped for something so desperately, yet never came to fruition. Only determination and personal situations can persuade hope to fly or fall. A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly highlights this ambiguous hope we depend on through the use of symbolism, characterization, and inner conflict.
Daylight saving time is the process of changing the clocks forward or backward twice a year in order to save electricity by promoting people to spend more time outside. Daylight saving is a popular practice observed by many countries around the world, with some inconsistencies between the states and provinces inside of them. Germany was the first country to put daylight saving time into practice in 1916, more than 20 years after George Vernon Hudson first presented a paper on daylight saving time to the Wellington Philosophical Society in 1895 (Pavlus 69). The United States, Russia and the rest of Europe started to observe daylight saving time by 1918. Because of the problems it causes, like health issues, a rise in car accidents and more electricity usage, daylight saving time should be removed.
A rainbow of colours from the sunflowers, fields of poppies and suspended baskets full of geraniums. Each season brings a different character and range of tints which show the changing faces of nature. Spring, summer and autumn all have a unique signature, with snow drops, cherry blossom, lilac and in fall a splash of gold, yellow and red when the oak leaves of the Cote d'Or change in autumn.
When I was young and saw the picture like the figure1, I think it was not real. It cannot happen in the earth. Maybe someone did Photoshop to edit and retouch the colorful colors in that picture. However, it is a natural phenomenon that happened in the earth 's atmosphere. Galileo Galilei named this phenomenon as "Aurora Borealis." I have three areas of information about auroras to advise you: what aurora borealis is, where the aurora borealis typically seen is, and comparison and contrast this information with Witch Child.
As consciousness slowly begins to return to John Luther, he hears voices surrounding him. Questions clutter his mind as he tries to move on the cold hard surface that he is sprawled out upon. The movement sends a surge of pain throughout his whole body. His eyes feel too heavy to open, but he forces them to. The bright lights blind him momentarily, but his eyes adjust a few seconds later. He sees two men dressed in suits hovering above him. He is quickly frightened when he realizes that in place of their eyes is nothing but darkness. The last thing John feels is a pinch in his left forearm and then the light is gone.
often seen at night because of the many lights that people claim to see illuminating from these
Driving home from work on a damp summer night, as silence plagued the air the only thing I could feel was the warm breeze against my skin. There was complete darkness, however, in the distance the only thing visible was a bright blue neon light to my right. As my car accelerated faster than the speed of light, to me, what felt like two seconds, really five minutes had passed. As my car came to a halt, no sooner did I put my car in park when I realized I was in front of the blue neon light that I had seen from a distance. This light turned out to be a bowling alley.