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Did you know NOAA issues forecasts for the Northern Lights? Officially called the Aurora Borealis, this phenomenon is tracked and forecast by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)—along with other space weather phenomena like solar fares.

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English: Did you know NOAA issues forecasts for the Northern Lights? Officially called the Aurora Borealis, this phenomenon is tracked and forecast by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)—along with other space weather phenomena like solar fares. On September 8, 2015, SWPC issued an Aurora Forecast for the following night, and the NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP satellite was there to catch the show from Earth orbit. Using its VIIRS Day-Night band, the satellite saw the wispy, undulating light show as it danced along the Canadian and U.S. border on September 9th. Also in this image, notice the nighttime lights from cities across both nations as detected from Suomi-NPP.
Date Taken on 7 December 2020, 10:35:42
Source Aurora Borealis over North America, 2015
Author NOAASatellites
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by NOAASatellites at https://flickr.com/photos/125201706@N06/50700001678. It was reviewed on 20 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

20 February 2024

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