From the very beginning of time, individuals from the olden days noticed the Aurora Borealis which, is also known and called the Northern Lights. Each of the ancient civilizations had their own and unique explanation of them. Many individuals had their own beliefs about them, some believed they were caused and came from rotting wood, while some believed they were magic. Others believed they were in the accompanied by emotional gods and spirits. In China, ancient people believed that the lights they were seeing were in fact colorful dragons, moving soundlessly in the night. Every culture had their own beliefs regarding the Aurora Borealis, little did they know that Auroras are the explosions of the sun that travel into earth’s atmosphere. And
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They began to learn that aurora’s go along with magnetic 'storms ' and an unsettled magnetosphere (Odenwald). Scientists discovered that the Auroras are made from the flow of the charged particles that were entering the atmosphere. They as well came to the discover that the auroras came and went with the sunspot cycle. By the 20th century, scientists made Aurora’s in their private labs in order to get an understanding of how the auroras work and how they come about. Once television and the fluorescent lamps were created, they found it easier to understand and discover just how the auroras worked. “When a major solar storm buffets Earth 's magnetic field, it causes some parts of this field to rearrange itself, like rubber bands pulled to their breaking point. This releases energy that causes powerful currents of particles to flow from distant parts of the magnetic field, into the atmosphere(Odenwald).” Dr. Stein Odenwald also states, “Once they reach a charged layer of the atmosphere called the ionosphere, they pick up still more energy like a roller coaster shooting down the other side of a tall hill. The currents of fast-moving charged particles continue to go through a course along the magnetic field into the polar regions and in which they collide with nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. These collisions produce deep red glows as high up as one thousand kilometers above the …show more content…
Many believed that it was impossible to hear they made because of how far away they were. But it was recently discovered that not only does The northern lights give us a beautiful show of dazzling light, but that they also generate their own strange and unique sounds as well. It was said that the same energetic particles that create crazy and beautifully dazzling colors of the northern lights high up in the Earth 's atmosphere as well produces a strange "clapping" noise. Which appears just about two hundred and thirty feet from the ground, researchers said. Laine was one of the researches who discovered that the auroras do make noise, and he states that he certainly agrees with the past research that one cannot hear the sounds of the aurora borealis because they were in fact too far away. “"This is true," Laine added. "However, our research proves that the source of the sounds that are associated with the aurora borealis we see is likely caused by the same energetic particles from the sun that create the northern lights far away in the sky. These particles or the geomagnetic disturbance produced by them seem to create sound much closer to the ground (Northern Lights Oddity, 2012)." Laine and teammates have also made it clear that the sounds of the Aurora sounds aren’t always consistent and that they don’t occur every time the northern lights do. They explained that they 're usually brief and faint,
They began to learn that aurora’s go along with magnetic 'storms ' and an unsettled magnetosphere (Odenwald). Scientists discovered that the Auroras are made from the flow of the charged particles that were entering the atmosphere. They as well came to the discover that the auroras came and went with the sunspot cycle. By the 20th century, scientists made Aurora’s in their private labs in order to get an understanding of how the auroras work and how they come about. Once television and the fluorescent lamps were created, they found it easier to understand and discover just how the auroras worked. “When a major solar storm buffets Earth 's magnetic field, it causes some parts of this field to rearrange itself, like rubber bands pulled to their breaking point. This releases energy that causes powerful currents of particles to flow from distant parts of the magnetic field, into the atmosphere(Odenwald).” Dr. Stein Odenwald also states, “Once they reach a charged layer of the atmosphere called the ionosphere, they pick up still more energy like a roller coaster shooting down the other side of a tall hill. The currents of fast-moving charged particles continue to go through a course along the magnetic field into the polar regions and in which they collide with nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. These collisions produce deep red glows as high up as one thousand kilometers above the …show more content…
Many believed that it was impossible to hear they made because of how far away they were. But it was recently discovered that not only does The northern lights give us a beautiful show of dazzling light, but that they also generate their own strange and unique sounds as well. It was said that the same energetic particles that create crazy and beautifully dazzling colors of the northern lights high up in the Earth 's atmosphere as well produces a strange "clapping" noise. Which appears just about two hundred and thirty feet from the ground, researchers said. Laine was one of the researches who discovered that the auroras do make noise, and he states that he certainly agrees with the past research that one cannot hear the sounds of the aurora borealis because they were in fact too far away. “"This is true," Laine added. "However, our research proves that the source of the sounds that are associated with the aurora borealis we see is likely caused by the same energetic particles from the sun that create the northern lights far away in the sky. These particles or the geomagnetic disturbance produced by them seem to create sound much closer to the ground (Northern Lights Oddity, 2012)." Laine and teammates have also made it clear that the sounds of the Aurora sounds aren’t always consistent and that they don’t occur every time the northern lights do. They explained that they 're usually brief and faint,