Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Correspondence
Nature 426, 227 (20 November 2003) | doi:10.1038/426227d
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Academic Surgical Pathologist
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) / Harvard Medical School
- Boston, MA
Senior Faculty Positions
- Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
- Port St. Lucie, FL
Casting light on mystery of auroral flashes
Len Freeman1
- 23 Hope Street, Cambridge CB1 3NA, UK
There may be a simple explanation for the puzzling auroral flashes seen by astronaut Ed Lu (Nature 425, 888; 2003). They could be due to an electrical discharge between regions of the atmosphere containing different electrostatic charges.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
