Auroras: the one thing the North Pole has that I want (34 photos)

want to reach out and touch it

auroras are so awesome. very pretty.

It’s definitely on my bucket list of things to see!

and I say to myself, what a wonderful world

In the shot taken from low orbit (looking at the aurora on edge), you can see on the Earth a white ring, I think that is the Manicougan Impact Crater in Quebec. If so, it is 40 miles in diameter and 200 million years old. It is visible because it has been flooded and used as a reservoir.

Many of these photos are shot around my hometown Tromsø in Norway. So it is not on the North Pole, not far away. To enjoy Auroras you just have to be above the arctic circle.

Locations:
Ersjfjorden on Kvaløya.
Blåmann on Kvaløya.
Tromsøya

there’s a pic of the south pole there :O

mmmmmm…, radiation.

No auroras on the North Pole, too far north.

The first time some people saw this they thought the World was coming to an end, and some nuts still think that. If I had to name this I would call it….”The planet making it’s own art”. What beauty.