Aurora Borealis

By Kristen and Miranda

What is Aurora Borealis?

• Aurora Borealis, or other wise known as the Northern Lights, is a colorful occurrence that is mostly seen around the northern horizon, and in the polar zone.

• The northern lights can be any bight color, depending on where it is. Example: In Iceland the northern lights might be a blue, white, or green.

Were Does the Northern Lights get it’s name?

• The northern lights gets it’s name from the names:

• Aurora – The name of the Roman goddess of dawn.

• Borealis –The Greek word for north wind.

What causes the northern What causes the northern lights?lights?

• The northern lights are caused by the collision of charged electrons that are found in the magnetosphere.

• A Magnetosphere is a region in space in which fantastic events are organized by Earths magnetic field.

• Along with atoms in the Earths upper atmosphere they create beautiful colorations of light.

Early sighting of the northern lights

• The first time anyone has spotted the northern lights occurred on September 2nd, 1859.

• This was the first time it was spotted world wide!

• Some places where you can see these magnificent lights is in Alaska and California.

A Legend of Aurora Borealis

• The Makah Indians of Washington state thought the northern lights where fires in the Far North, over which a tribe of dwarfs, half the length of a canoe paddle and so strong they caught whales with their hands, boiled blubber.

The wonders of aurora borealis

Wonders continued…