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Pulsating Aurora - Aurores pulsantes - March 19th, 2025 - Aavasaksa, Finland

Pulsating aurora: high-energetic precipitating electrons, causing blinking patches of light below 110 km, sometimes down to an altitude of 70 km.This broad range of altitudes indicates a large range of precipitating electron energies during a pulsating aurora. The colors are from the green to pink when it's going lower in the atmosphere. The horizontal size of such an aurora ranges from 10 to 200 km with a pulsation period of a few seconds. birkeland.uib.no/pulsating-aurora/

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Taken on March 19, 2025