AURORA

GROUP IV
ABDUL HAQ
INDAH KHAIRUNISA
IZRAINI ISLAMIATI P
KEVIN VERONIKO A

Do you know about aurora?

An aurora (Latinword mean sunrise)

is natural light display in the sky in the
poles (north and south) caused by the
collision of energetic charged particles
with atoms in the high altitude
atmosphere. In the northern latitude,
the
effect
is
known
asaurora
borealis(aurora:the
goddess
dawn,borealis:north wind). While in
the Antarctic region, the effect is
known asaurora australis.

aurora illuminate the northern and

southern horizon as greenish glow or
sometimes faint red, occasionally
blue but most often in fluorescent
green. Auroras can be seen at night
because their light is not as strong as
the light of the day.

Want To See
The Aurora form
looks like??

Why Aurora is only found in the

earths poles?

This is because the north and South

Pole magnetic field is very strong
compared to other regions. The poles
of this magnetic field pull the protons
and electrons from the solar wind. So
the phenomenon is more common in
the Polar Regions.

However, sometimes the Aurora can

also appear at the top of the
mountain in a tropical climate, but
this phenomenon is extremely rare.
Aurora phenomena have been
observed on other planets than Earth
that have a magnetic field, such as
Jupiter, Saturn and more recently
Mars. It is believed to be a
widespread phenomenon in the Solar
System and beyond.