2022 October 30 - Night on a Spooky Planet

In today's image, we see the spooky planet known as Earth. The clouds in the foreground are clouds of steam from vents in the ground in Iceland. The green glow in the sky is the aurora - the glow of oxygen atoms when excited by charged particles from our Sun.

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