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The Expanding Auroral Oval - Windows to the Universe
This image shows the expanding auroral oval.
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L. Frank
The Expanding Auroral Oval
This figure shows a series of images of the auroral oval as it expands over the course of about an hour in response to a geomagnetic storm .
This is an animation of the expanding auroral oval.
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