Credit & Copyright: Max Rive
Explanation:
Raise your arms if you see an aurora.
With those instructions, two nights went by with, well,
clouds -- mostly.
On the third night of returning to same peaks, though,
the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a
spectacular auroral display.
Arms went high in the air, patience and experience
paid
off,
and the creative
featured image was captured as a composite from three separate
exposures.
The setting is a summit of the
Austnesfjorden
fjord close to the town of
Svolvear on the
Lofoten islands in northern
Norway.
The time was early 2014.
Although our
Sun passed
the
solar minimum of its
11-year cycle only a few years
ago,
surface activity is
picking up and already triggering more
spectacular auroras here on
Earth.
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