A bright auroral oval as seen from directly over the north pole,
taken by the
Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging (SAI)
instrument on board
Dynamics Explorer - 1.
This image was obtained 23 Nov 81 (81/327) at 10:48 UT.
This image includes a coastline map overlayed on the SAI image. It also
has the Magnetic and Geographic North poles marked as M and N,
respectively.
Courtesy L. Frank, the University of Iowa,
and NASA.
If this image is used it should be accompanied by the following:
"Image taken by the Spin-Scan Auroral Imaging instrument on board
Dynamics Explorer - 1. Courtesy L. Frank, the University of Iowa,
and NASA."
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