Matthew and Otto retired as Atlantic hurricane names after the storms turned deadly, destructive in 2016 Weather News - March 27, 2017, 12:47:29 PM EDT The World Meteorological Organization announced on Monday that it is retiring Matthew and Otto from the list of Atlantic hurricane names after their deadly and destructive impacts during the 2016 ...
Thermosphere-overview. The aurora (Northern Lights and Southern Lights) mostly occur in the thermosphere. Credit: Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. The thermosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere.he thermosphere is directly above the mesosphere and below the exosphere. It extends from about 90 km (56 miles) to between 500 and 1,000 km (311 to 621 miles) above our planet.
Images of the aurora australis and aurora borealis from around the world, including those with rarer red and blue lights. An aurora is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions.uroras result from emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 mi), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen atoms and nitrogen based molecules returning from an excited state to ground state.