L-001
drifting
CATEGORY
light
DRIFT STATUS
drifting
FIRST RECORDED
Prehistory
LAST RECORDED
Present
COORDINATES
High-latitude skies; rare low-latitude events
CONTRIBUTOR
The Drift Atlas Team
The aurora has not vanished. It has become newly legible to people far from polar skies during strong geomagnetic storms. The beauty is real. So is the system behind it: solar weather, charged particles, atmosphere, power grids, satellites, and navigation. This record is about a sight that is less stable than it feels.