Aurora

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2145t&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2145. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Solar System, Planetary Physics

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An aurora is an extended source of light of different forms and colors observable at high latitudes and sometimes at mid-latitudes. Their brightness may reach the intensity of the full moonlight. The auroral oval (one in each hemisphere) is the location where most of the auroras are observable. It is a belt surrounding each of Earth's magnetic poles with a maximum latitudinal extent at magnetic m...

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