The Cusp Aurora
A conceptual animation showing electrons traveling down Earth's magnetic field lines, colliding into oxygen atoms in Earth's atmosphere and causing oxygen molecules to escape and release red light causing the cusp aurora.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animator
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
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Producers
- Joy Ng (USRA)
- Miles S. Hatfield (Telophase)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, December 20, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.
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