# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BKLLgkUBXo4
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346518-nasaartemis-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/b773dd015a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-09-10T12:02:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

The aurora australis, or southern lights, glimmer green over Antarctica in this picture taken four days after a massive solar flare. To capture it, NASA researchers obtained readings from the now-defunct IMAGE satellite, which monitored Earth's magnetic field. 
Overlaying the data onto a "Blue Marble" satellite photograph of Earth resulted in both the image above and an animation of the solar storm's effects on Earth's atmosphere. 
Credit: NASA, Earth Observatory | c. 2006

#NASA #southernlights #antarctica #Earth #imaging

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southernlights, earth, antarctica, nasa, imaging

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