Environment
Unreal Satellite Images of the Aurora Borealis Over America
Blood-red emanations were recently visible as far south as West Virginia.
Early Wednesday morning North Americans were treated to waves of intense light shimmering across the heavens. “When we thought it was over, the sky exploded around 3:30 like we have never seen,” one witness said of an aurora borealis that cast a blood-red hue as far south as West Virginia. Other camera-toting watchers described the kaleidoscopic display as “wild,” “vivid and very active,” and, simply, “WOW!!”
From the cold reaches of space the sights were just as superb. Shown above is the view from the Suomi NPP satellite as auroras tickled the U.S.-Canadian border around 4 a.m. Here’s a blown-up shot: