Amazing Northern Lights Above Glacier

Our dear Polaris took us for a small trip up to the glacier yesterday. It was beautiful evening- no wind at all, temperature around -13°C and almost full moon. It was so much light that it looked almost like a day, even with a strong shadow of a person.
We were lucky. What we saw was amazing...flickering curtains of lights, apparently dancing across the sky. We were watching the northern lights. So far the strongest one I have ever seen here. I tried to catch them with my camera to share with you this amazing phenomen. But you have to experience it yourself in person here, with all the mountains around.


If you are courious what are the northern lihts and what causes them - here is something about them:

"Northern lights originate from our sun. During large explosions and flares, huge quantities of solar particles are thrown out of the sun and into deep space. These plasma clouds travel through space with speeds varying from 300 to 1000 kilometers per second.

But even with such speeds (over a million kilometer per hour), it takes these plasma clouds two to three days to reach our planet. When they are closing in on Earth, they are captured by Earth's magnetic field (the magnetosphere) and guided towards Earth's two magnetic poles; the geomagnetic south pole and the geomagnetic north pole.

Northern lights occur as a result of solar particles colliding with the gases in earth's atmosphere

On their way down towards the geomagnetic poles, the solar particles are stopped by Earth's atmosphere, which acts as an effective shield against these deadly particles.

When the solar particles are stopped by the atmosphere, they collide with the atmospheric gases present, and the collision energy between the solar particle and the gas molecule is emitted as a photon - a light particle. And when you have many such collisions, you have an aurora - lights that may seem to move across the sky." http://www.northern-lights.no/