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	Aurora Season
Lubaska
5-4-2008 5:04 AM
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5-4-2008 6:16 AM
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What are the signs of spring?  They are as familiar as a blooming daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun.
And, oh yes, don’t forget the aurora borealis.
Spring is aurora season.  For reasons not fully understood by scientists, the weeks around the vernal equinox are prone to Northern Lights.  Canadians walking their dogs after dinner, Scandinavians popping out to the sauna, Alaskan Huskies on the Iditarod trail -- all they have to do is look up and behold, green curtains of light dancing across the night sky.  Spring has arrived!</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/themis/auroras/aurora_live.html"><DIV>
Auroras are much more than just pretty lights in the sky.  Underlying each display is a potent geomagnetic storm with possible side-effects ranging from satellite malfunctions in orbit to power outages on terra firma. Telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems are all vulnerable.   In a society that relies increasingly on space technology, understanding these storms is vital.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215937main_auroralargeGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215937main_auroralargeGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215937main_auroralargeGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nasa.gov/img/69FF56F8-1F3E-4A1B-B94C-03D923B480A8" alt="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215937main_auroralargeGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215910main_auroraGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215910main_auroraGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215910main_auroraGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nasa.gov/img/D66D1CB6-37D1-45AE-8C5C-55EA08C86D08" alt="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/215910main_auroraGSFC_20080304_HI.jpg" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9D1572A0-41B5-4E01-8EC1-00D3A9B0B947/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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