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To: StanX Long who wrote (54747)10/28/2001 3:38:09 AM
From: StanX Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
OT but interesting.

Stan

This is the first time that we have seen both auroral ovals simultaneously with such clarity

Friday, 26 October, 2001, 15:54 GMT 16:54 UK
Lights snapped from space
The two auroras are a mirror image of each other

By BBC News Online's Helen Briggs
Red and green lights dance in the sky above the North and South poles.

The two lights - the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis - appear to be a mirror image of each other.

This is the first time that we have seen both auroral ovals simultaneously with such clarity

Nicola Fox, Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
This picture was taken by a spacecraft during a recent space weather storm.

It is the first time Northern and Southern Lights brightening at the same time at opposite ends of the Earth have been captured on film.

news.bbc.co.uk