Have you ever seen the Northern lights from space?

Have you ever seen the Northern lights from space?

German astronaut Alexander Gerst shot it.

The Aurora is North and South. The video shows how the ISS flies over the South pole.

NASA explains a natural phenomenon by the collision of charged particles of the solar wind with molecules in the upper atmosphere. For example, yellow-green fluorescence, similar to that shown in the video, caused by the collision of oxygen molecules at a distance more than 90 km above the Earth.

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The ISS astronauts often upload videos about his life and views from space. For example, you can see what it looks like from the station Crimean bridge and the Volga.

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