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NASA captures haunting ISS view of aurora meeting airglow over Earth – CNET

Two atmospheric beauties meld together in one spectacular image.

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A NASA astronaut snapped this combo package of an aurora and airglow in March 2020.
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Some images of Earth as seen from the International Space Station show a gentle, glowing curve of light over our planet. Some show wispy, ethereal (and often green) aurora. A spectacular ISS image shared by NASA shows both.
“Wavy green, red-topped wisps of aurora borealis appear to intersect the muted red-yellow band of airglow as the ISS passed just south of the Alaskan Peninsula,” NASA’s Earth Observato…

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