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Aurora Observing and Recording Nature's Spectacular Light Show /
The uniquely beautiful light display of an aurora is the result of charged particles colliding with tenuous atmospheric oxygen and nitrogen, more than 60 miles above the Earth, when the magnetosphere is disturbed by changes in the solar wind. Often - and incorrectly - regarded as being confined to h...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
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| Online Access: | Texto Completo |
Table of Contents:
- Atmospheric Phenomena
- Causes of the Aurora
- Auroral Forecasting
- Observing the Aurora
- Historical Aurorae and More Recent Events
- Aurora Elsewhere
- Early observers and theorists of the aurora classed it along with other atmospheric phenomena as a "meteor." In common with many of his other ideas that remained unchallenged until well into the sixteenth century, Aristotle's fourth century BC view of these events being the result of ignition of rising vapors belowthe innermost celestial sphere prevailed for some time. An alternative, proposed by the Roman philosopher Seneca in his Questiones Naturales, was that aurorae were flames viewed through chasmata-cracks in the heavenly firmament.
- Noctilucent Clouds and other Phenomena.