The beauty of the northern lights may soon splash across computer and television screens thanks to a scientific research program led by the Canadian Space Agency and NASA.
The aurora borealis movies are a byproduct of research into what causes massive releases of energy into the Arctic skies, says University of Calgary professor Eric Donovan, who is heading the Canadian side of the project.
People from around the world will soon be able to view the northern lights via computer.
(CBC News)
This fall, the project launched five satellites and set up 20 fish-eye cameras across the North to measure activity and photograph the night skies, Donovan said in an interview Thursday.
The real time images from the cameras, which are snapping pictures every three seconds in unison, should soon be available on a website, he said.
"You know the data that we are getting is actually remarkably beautiful data … as well as being scientifically interesting," Donovan said.
"We will soon have a web page where the real time data is shown and we want to have these images shown occasionally on the weather channels."
Donovan hopes to have the images up on the web within a few months.
"These movies will be, in my opinion, the best movies of the aurora that have ever been taken," he said.
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