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Earth as You’ve Never Seen it Before: Atmosphere, Airglow and Aurora

Sunday, December 30, 2012 17:46
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In this life … I have never seen any video as beautiful as this …

The high seaters say that the Mother Earth is over populated … but they would rather genocide the mainstream then allow them their rightful inheritance of the stars …

We were to be here but a little while … before joining star-families of distant star colonies …

The fraudulent elite having oppressed this world  … have done a sinfully wrong injustice to Mother Earth people …

Genesis 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,

HERE A truly powerful image generates questions.

The incredible night photos and time-lapse movies NASA has been sharing with us provoke questions about our planet. That thin-yellow atmospheric line separating earth from space, for example, that we see in all of the night shots provokes two questions: (1) how thick is this line? and (2) why is this line colored the way it is?

The visible yellow and green/blue capped line represents atmosphere reaching ~100km above the surface of the earth. The colors are not reflected light, and not pollution, but rather are light generated from the components in the atmosphere itself. Yes, the atmosphere gives off its own light, in a chemiluminescent process called “airglow” or “night glow.”

I have written a blog to accompany this video that explains the various colors of “Night Glow” and discusses the Aurora as well. I hope you find this blog a useful companion to understanding what you are seeing.

auroranightglow.blogspot.com/

High Resolution images courtesy of The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. The Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center:

eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/

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