Heres the answer to the photo-quiz yesterday. The light effect is called aurora borealis. The picture was taken at Norway. The aurora borealis (or the northern lights), can be seen best at magnetic midnight. In northern latitudes, the effect, named by Galileo in 1619, refers to aurora named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, Congrats to the numerous friends who gave the correct answer. The first one was Friend Shubham Kumar and we found Friend Rakesh Choudharys reply Imagination - very apt and interesting! Other Friends who gave us additional information were - Prahalad Rajagopalan :This is natures most spectacular light show and is called aurora borealis or northern lights.Anuprita R Ambulkar Dalvi: Its aurora Borealis. It may be seen at both poles where high latitude present. Aakash Saxena: Aurora borealis in South America,Australia,Newzeland and other cold countries. Ravindra Beniwal Aurora Boriolis. North america, Norway and Australia. Also called Northern lights. Karthik Gottumukkala: aurora borialis & australis...can be seen at poles...due to the collision of charged particles emitted from the suns surface reactions... Utkarsh Kumar: its Aurora Borealis found in latitudes of Newzealand,Australia, south America.....this is formed due to collision of charged particles and colloids present in the atmosphere Inder Jeet Das: They are called aurora Boreals or we can call them northern and Southern lights....
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:16:24 +0000