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Corona Part I I’m sitting on a plane on the verge of being southbound from the north slope after two weeks of playing on the tundra. Six hours ago we had just commenced the hour plus drive back to Alpine after working on a large scaffold on a cross country pipeline when the aurora started dancing. I was driving and fortunately they were out on the left. As the flickering intensified, it was determined we’d make it back in time if I grabbed a few photos. As I was setting up my tripod they busted loose! Quite possibly the most intense geomagnetic storm I’ve ever seen and I’ve been lucky to see some good ones. I wasn’t focusing much on framing the images. I’d glance at the image preview to make sure I was in the ballpark and just kept pressing the button with my eyes upward on some insane flow, a rapidly ascending crescendo of frantic particles commingling with our atmospheric gases. It was nuts. I laughed and whooped and yelled at the same time. When I arrived on the slope there was one COVID19 case in Alaska.…

Описанный в «Нихон сёки» красный «хвост фазана», который возник в небе над Японией в VII веке, был, вероятнее всего, полярным сиянием. Сегодня его нельзя увидеть над страной, но полторы тысячи лет назад это было возможно из-за того, что магнитная широта Японии отличалась от современной, сообщается в журнале Sokendai Review of Culture and Social Studies.