Rapid Impulse

Alaska Aurora Photography

Multiple vigorous curtains of pulsating aurora, fringed with delicate violet edges, spread into a corona overhead and dance across the northern Kenai Mountains with breathtaking speed. The grand display surged from the eastern horizon across the entire sky and dissipated within seconds — a reminder of how abruptly Alaska's Northern Lights can arrive and vanish.

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"Rapid Impulse"

“…Multiple vigorous curtains of pulsating aurora, fringed with delicate violet outer edges, spread out into an auroral corona overhead and danced across Alaskan skies directly above the northern Kenai Mountains. The grand display rose abruptly in the east, covered the night in vibrating sheets within seconds, then moved across to the western horizon and dissipated into a few ghostly forms. These spectacular events in auroral formation are rapid impulses and have been measured with horizontal movements exceeding 100 km/second…”

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