ISS No. 42-42590510
by NASA JSC/Michael Benson - © Corbis. All Rights Reserved. - © NASA JSC/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures/Corbis
The northern lights over Vancouver Island and western Canada
25 Jan 2012 --- The northern lights over Vancouver Island and western Canada. Also called the aurora borealis, their incandescence is caused by the collision of charged particles from the Sun with the Earth's atmosphere. ISS 030 crew, January 25, 2012 --- Image by © NASA JSC/Michael Benson/Kinetikon Pictures/Corbis