Hello, this is Felix with another update on our Arctic
adventures.
The polar night is getting to us, messing up our sleep pattern and confusing us every morning we wake up. However, what else could be better to keep us from going outdoors and force us to study (probably not even Scottish rain)?
The only natural source of light that now brightens the sky occasionally is the collision of solar winds and magnetospheric particles in the upper atmosphere – Northern Lights. Despite its name, the aurora borealis are only visible looking south, where the sun's energetic particles hit the atmosphere.
The polar night is getting to us, messing up our sleep pattern and confusing us every morning we wake up. However, what else could be better to keep us from going outdoors and force us to study (probably not even Scottish rain)?
The only natural source of light that now brightens the sky occasionally is the collision of solar winds and magnetospheric particles in the upper atmosphere – Northern Lights. Despite its name, the aurora borealis are only visible looking south, where the sun's energetic particles hit the atmosphere.
The Austrian 19th century polar explorer Julius von Payer described this phenomenon much better than I could: 'No pencil can draw it, no colours can paint it, no words can describe it'.
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