Star trails & the Northern Lights over Mount Rainier National Park make for an amazing pic. Photo by Matt Dieterich. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 4/15/17.
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Ending In Color 2 comments
Sunset over Ruby Beach. Olympic National Park. Photo by Doug Day. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/16/16.
The Northern Lights create mesmerizing swirls over Denali National Park. Photo by Carl Johnson. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 1/5/17.
Sometimes, the most remarkable moments in life are the simple ones. There will be 365 sunsets at Glacier National Park in Montana this year. Don’t you think you should see at least one? Photo by Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 1/8/17.
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The Northern Lights shimmer above the remote Slaven’s Roadhouse at Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska. This historic roadhouse along the Yukon River once housed prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush. Today, park visitors can spend the night in this restored cabin. Photo by Sean Tevebaugh, National Park Service. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 3/31/16.
Lights In The Sky 1 comment
Northern Lights dance over Denali National Park. Photo by Jacob W Frank. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 11/5/15.
The Milky Way sparkles over the Natural Bridges National Monument in Utah. Photo by Manish Mamtani. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 12/2/15.
If you want to be the first person in the U.S. to see the sunrise, you’ll have to go to Maine. The morning’s first light hits Acadia National Park, revealing rocky coves and dense forests. It’s a spectacular scene in the sky and on the land. Photo by Rebecca Wilks. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 12/3/15.
California’s Alabama Hills National Recreation Area. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/4/15.
The Glowing Sky Leave a comment
The Northern Lights put on a show over Montana’s Glacier National Park. Photo by Jacob Frank. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 4/20/15.
It doesn’t get better than watching the northern lights at Denali National Park. Photo by Daniel Leifheit. Tweeted by the Us Department of the Interior, 5/1/15.
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The aurora borealis dancing over Denali National Park was the subject of the most popular photo shared by the US Department of the Interior last week. Tweeted 3/23/15.
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Here’s an amazing display of the northern lights over Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior on 12/31/14.
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Pretty Colors In The Sky 5 comments
Aurora Borealis tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 12/11/13.
The Northern Lights.
What are they? Proof that there is life on Earth.
The are actually produced from millions of explosions of magnetic energy. The earth’s atmosphere shields the Earth from storms of molecules driven out of the sun (“solar wind”) which are then attracted by the magnetic poles. Without the atmosphere protecting us, then there would be no life on earth due to the solar wind.
Aurora Borealis photographed near Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Millions of particles collide with our atmosphere, and release photons … which glow. Different kinds of molecules glow with different colors.
In 1621, Pierre Gassendi, a French scientist, saw the Northern Lights and named them after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Roman god of the north wind, Boreas (which he changed to Borealis).
Hence, Aurora Borealis in the north … and Aurora Australis in the south. The lights are seen after dusk in both hemispheres, near the poles.
The Aurorae are harmless to life, but do cause power disruptions in satellite communications and in radio and TV broadcasts.
Click on this link to see an amazing video from the US Department of the Interior: Aurora Borealis.
Here’s another video, sent out via instagram by the US Department of the Interior on January 7, 2014.
The sky over Denali National Park, the week of February 17, 2014. Photo by Daniel A. Leifheit. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 2/21/14.
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