See the Southern Lights from space station view

Daily Mail
September 20, 2011

We have already seen an amazing time-lapse video showing an orbit of the Earth from the International Space Station – as featured first on Mail Online.

And now astronauts have released another amazing video of their window on the world.

It shows the Southern Lights, known as the aurora australis, as the space station passed over Eastern Australia on September 11.

The stunning sight is formed as charged particles streaming from the Sun – known as the solar wind – interact with Earth’s magnetic field, resulting in collisions with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen (the elements which form the majority of the air we breathe) in the upper atmosphere.

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  1. Part 2 of 4

    “SYMBOLS OF AN ALIEN SKY”

    yo utube.com/watch?v=Y4ZT-IOf0gMfeature=results_videoplaynext=1list=PL1CAB005C3DDFD00B

    Also, Part One of Mars being hit by massive electrical discharges
    yo utube.com/watch?v=V_T6__JDeyw

  2. “…charged particles streaming from the Sun…”.

    Our Solar System, and beyond, is electrial.

    “When Dragons Ruled the World”
    yo utube.com/watch?v=vTu602EoVho

    and many of the artwork depicting dragon – serpents, and many of the statues that one can buy…..have the dragon – serpent clutching a red sphere in it’s talon. There is a very good explanation of why this is.

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