Lighting the Sky (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Lighting the Sky

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This is an artistic impression of how auroras could be more widespread under a geomagnetic field much weaker than today's.

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Huapei Wang, with source files courtesy of NASA's Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD

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