
As the days faithfully follow each other, there are occasions when nature will present different facets of its presence, which could be described as the ‘light shows of nature’.
Although known from the very early days of human existence, the deeper understanding of many of these observations is only now coming to the fore. This is very much the case with the ‘Northern Lights’, also known as the ‘Aurora Borealis’.
The extensive efforts to understand the nature of the Northern Lights, stems in one sense from scientific curiosity but in another from a need to understand how to withstand the influence of the solar wind from the Sun on the Earth’s ever-developing technology infrastructure, which includes satellites and power grids.
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