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The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

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A deluge of charged particles from the Sun can overload the Van Allen belts and cascade
toward Earth, producing auroras that can be seen over a wide range of latitudes. This is a view of an aurora from the deep space
satellite Dynamics Explorer 1. The green lines show the locations of land masses under the aurora. Auroras typically
occur 100 to 400 km above Earth’s surface
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