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Polar Rain: Polar Ionospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment

Target Name:  Earth's Aurora
Spacecraft:  PIXIE
Produced by:  NASA/Lockheed Martin
Copyright: Public Domain
Date Released: 11 May 1999

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X-ray images of the North Pole reveal the "polar rain" of electrons that lit up Earth's upper atmosphere over the North Pole.

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