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The northern lights, which are also known as the aurora borealis, are the result of solar storms on the Sun that rain down charged particles onto the Earth’s atmosphere.
Alaska is close enough to Earth's magnetic north pole where the northern lights happen on a frequent basis, unlike other areas in the United States farther south where the aurora can only be seen ...
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere. The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high ...
Northern lights usually dance in the sky for a few minutes and then slither off. Sometimes a display can last around 15 to 30 minutes or even a few hours. But that is unusual.
Another one of Fairbanks' unusual occurrences is the prevalence of the aurora borealis, commonly called the northern lights, which are visible on average more than 200 days per year in the vicinity of Fairbanks. [61] The northern lights are not visible in the summer months due to the 24 hour daylight of the midnight sun.
The United States Congress established the Geophysical Institute with an act approved on July 31, 1946, to study the aurora borealis, after auroral activity disrupted military communications during World War II. The funds from Congress were used to build the Geophysical Institute's main structure, which was finished in 1950.
Nov. 4—Watchers of the night sky along much of Alaska's road system may catch a colorful splotch of light up high in the air over the weekend. Though it might look like the aurora, the red or ...
The Alaska Satellite Facility began as a single-purpose receiving station known as the Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility [7] located in the Geophysical Institute (GI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. [8] The interest in space-borne SAR observations began in the U.S. with the success of the Seasat mission in 1978. [9] (There ...