Space Station Flies Through Aurora | Time-Lapse Video

Monday, August 25, 2014 - 15:31 in Astronomy & Space

Expedition 40 astronaut Alexander Gerst said "We flew right through a massive aurora after last week's solar mass ejection." The space station maintains a altitude of between 205 and 270 miles above Earth.

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