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 ? section A Finland Northern Lights The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora?Borealis or the “Dawn of the North”, never fail to take your breath away. The aurora borealis is one of the most sublime and magnificent natural phenomena on Earth. Before scientists cracked the mystery of the auroras, men were drawn and fascinated by these dancing and magical lights that were often found in mythology and legends. In Roman Mythology, it is said that the?Aurora?is?the?deity?of?the?dawn.?In?North?America,?the?Inuits (爱斯基摩人)have many legends that explain them as spirits of the dead. They believed that the lights are the essences(精华) of deer, . An aurora (plural: auroras) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earths magnetic field into the atmosphere. Aurora is classified as diffuse or discrete aurora. Most auroras occur in a band known as the auroral zone[1][2] which is typically 3° to 6° in latitudinal extent and at all local times or longitudes. In some areas, such as Alaska or Greenland, they may be visible most nights of the year. And they occur at any time of the day, but we can’t see them with the naked eye unless it’s dark. salmon(鲑鱼亚里斯多德)thought it was glowing air gushing(喷出) from cracks in the sky. The appearance of the red aurora in medieval(中世纪的)times was feared as a bad omen (前兆) or a sign of Gods anger. They believed the manifestation (显现)of the aurora indicated famine or 查尔斯·霍尔), a 19th-century polar explorer, exclaimed: Who but God can conceive(想出) such infinite(无穷的) 毛利人)thought that the displays were just reflections of a campfire(营火) or torches /programs/view/9-8QYG514fM/?resourceId=0_06_02_99?fr=1 What do you think of this one ? * Polar lights (aurora p