Northern Lights


The “Northern Lights” are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth’s atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun’s atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles are colliding. The most common aural colour is green, and it is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the Earth.

Northern Lights or “Auroral Borealis” are one of the most known natural shows in countries located in the North of the world, as Finland or Norway, but in countries located in the South there is the same phenomenon, in this case they are called “Aurora Australis”.

When I went to Lapland in one of my trips, I had an opportunity to see them, and it was indescribable!  We went about 100 kilometres from Sääriselkä by bus and we arrived at a big frozen lake. It was a big cloudy, but we could sit down in the frozen lake and admire the show that took place in the sky. Little green and white lights appeared and disappeared between the clouds. And there were so many stars! They were bigger and closer than the stars I see in Spain. It was amazing!

The feelings that I had in that moment are not able to be explained with words. I saw them with my friends I met here in Finland, and it was so emotive.

The guide told us that we were very lucky to see them because of the weather, but if I have other opportunity in the future to see them, I would like to do it again without clouds in the sky.

Finland is always surprising me!

   


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