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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: MacDonald EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851661 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20180314 3
A glowing ribbon of purple light running east-west in the night sky has recently been observed by citizen scientists. This narrow, subauroral, visible structure, distinct from the traditional auroral oval, was largely undocumented in the scientific literature and little was known about its formation. Amateur photo sequences showed colors distinctly different from common types of aurora and occasionally indicated magnetic field-aligned substructures. Observations from the Swarm satellite as it cr ...[more]