'Southern lights' blaze above Antarctica as Space Station hurtles over

[n2doc]

Most inhabitants of the northern hemisphere are familiar with the northern lights - but a photo captured from the International Space Station last week shows that 'southern lights' can be just as spectacular.
As activity blazed on the sun's surface last week, aurora erupted at both of Earth's poles - but space station astronaut Andre Kuipers had a better vantage point than most earth-bound photographers.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114274/Southern-lights-blaze-Antarctica-International-Space-Station-hurtles-over.html

[longship]

1. Awesome

The full sized pic would be better. (Sorry. Cannot get it with my low bandwidth.)

[n2doc]

2. I looked, but couldn't find it

The Astronaut's blog doesn't have it up, yet.

[tridim]

3. Please post the link if you find it. That's a keeper for sure.

[callous taoboy]

4. How high up does one need to be to see them like this?

I could swear that on a flight into Anchorage one evening it looked like I was looking down on some nothern lights.