Northern Lights again
Here's another picture of the northern lights from last night. I missed them! I last checked at 11:45, and the sky was clear. This picture was taken at 12:30. I will look again tonight. To get the best view I will have to climb up the ladder into the observatory. Wish me luck!
Rony and Lucas gave some information about how the colors of the northern lights are formed. It does have to do with the elements that can be found in the ionosphere. We will be studying the layers of the atmosphere later this year. Can someone tell me the names of the layers now?
Here is some more information on the the aurora borealis in Churchill.
posted by Mrs. McMinn @ 11:45 PM
14 Comments:
What causes the lights to turn green?
Dear Ms McMinn,
I wish you good luck to climb the ladder to see the sight of a life time. The pictures of the wild life and especially of you are great and we all enjoy viewing them. We are thinking of you back here art SMMS
Regards,
Mrs. Pastula
This is picture is too sad!
Adline F.
Black Team
Scofield
I think that the polar bear on the beach is really cool because we dont usually see them in that habitat. And I think the northern lights are really pretty and amazing. GOOD LUCK!
- Black team student Scofield magnet middle school
The polar bear is so cool. We hardly see Polar bears today.
Lucia Oliveri
Scofield
Black Team
there are 5 layers in the atmosphere. the layers are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
Ms. McMinn,
There are 5 layers of the atmosphere. The tropsphere which is where the weather occurs. You also breathe the air in the tropshere. Secondly, there is the stratosphere were many airplanes fly. The ozone layer is located there. Thirdly, there is the mesophere where rock fragments from space burn up. Fourthly, there is the thermosphere, a very thin layer where the space shuttle orbits. And lastly, there is the exosphere which is the upper limit of out atmosphere.
I also saw the Northern Lights in Alaska, when i was on a cruise in 2003. When I saw them they where more of a pink white color. I wonder what changes the colors.
Hope you had fun!!
Maya K.
Mr. Sollitto
What kind of temperature is in the tundra? The northeren lights are really cool too!
Amanda
Black Team
Scofield
Ms McMinn,
I love the pictures of the Northern Lights. They are amazing. I would love to see them in real life! I hope you had a great time with your research on the permafrost!
Meghan M
Mr.Sollitto
Can Ionosphere be considered another part of the layers of the atmosphere because it is very important. The ionosphere makes radio communication possible. i also learned that the ionosphere that makes up 0.1% of the atmosphere and the temperature gets hotter as you go up.
here is a great site: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream//atmos/layers.htm
~Nikita G.
Mr.Santorella
the lights look cool, and i just read that the lights accutally become more intense in color when major activity occers in the solar system, and solar winds come and brighten the colors.
This is such a cool picture! It must have been amazing in person. Well there are 5 layers in the atmosphere.
First, there is the Troposphere. The Troposphere is the first layer above the surface. It contains half of the Earth's atmosphere. Weather occurs on the Troposphere.
The Stratosphere is where most airplanes\jets go into because it is very stable. The ozone layer absorbs rays from the Sun.
Next, rocks or meteors burn up in the Mesosphere.
Fourth, the Thermosphere is the layer with auroras and also where space shuttles orbits.
Lastly, the Atmosphere is the upper layer of the Atmosphere in the extremely thin Exosphere.
Does the Northern Lights only happen in cold temperature?
The names of the five layers are the troposhere where the weather occurs, you breath the air in this layer. The stratosphere is next, it is very stable and contains the ozone layer, in the mesosphere alot of rock fragments from space burn up. Next, is the thermosphere which is very thin and where the space shuttle orbits. And last is the exosphere.
Source: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/layers.html&edu=elem
Chris B.
Mr. Santorella
Dear Ms. McMinn,
When I first saw this I didn't know what it was, so i thought that maybe a do a little research on it. I found out that the correct name for the northern lights are "Aurora Polaris"Our sun is sending out good ions which are parts of atoms into space due to the nuclear processes that keep it burning. The ions flow in so many directions “solar wind” is actually a flow of protons, or hydrogen nuclei. When those specks that makes up the wind near the Earth, they are likely to be focused toward the Earth’s poles by Earth’s magnetic field. When they reach our atmosphere, they are moving fast they knock electrons out of atoms in the upper atmosphere. This creates Northern Lights. The picture is so pretty also. I got this information at:
http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/062492.html
*Chynih C.
Mr. Santorella Advisory
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