| Description: | How a Stunning Aurora Video Was Made
Even a fever couldn keep filmmaker Anna Possberg from photographing auroras literally dancing atop her car.
jumped out and said, hell with the flu, we have time back home to get healthy again; we have to do some work, recalls Possberg, who was photographing aurora borealis in February in Troms, Norway, as part of her Lightscapes project. (Watch a 2012 time lapse video of auroras over Lapland.)
Auroras result from charged particles that are flung off the sun surface during solar storms known as coronal mass ejections. When the particles collide with Earth atmosphere, they cause geomagnetic storms that trigger the neon colored auroras. (See another time lapse video of auroras fueled by a solar storm.)
Over the past year, Possberg and her husband, Claus Possberg, have traveled four times to the Scandinavian to photograph the phenomena, which appear as stunning light shows in many northern countries, especially during dark winters.
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