Five Extraordinary Facts worth Knowing To Make the Northern Lights Tour in Iceland Enjoyable

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Five Extraordinary Facts worth Knowing To Make
the Northern Lights Tour in Iceland Enjoyable
Most tourists visiting Iceland have a bucket-list
which always includes the Golden Circle, and of
course, the Northern Lights. Seeing this solar
activity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The
fickleness of these dancing lights make them
unpredictable, and you may not find them in
action on a second visit. This dramatic curtain
of colored lights appears in the dark skies of
the night in the deathly silence of the winter
season.
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Colors according to atoms
As you should be able to comprehend, the Northern
Lights are a result of chemical and physical
reactions. The shades that appear in the Aurora,
during the Northern Lights tour in Iceland, which
you book from Go to joy Iceland, happen due to
the collision of electrons with nitrogen and
oxygen. Oxygen is what emits the greenish-yellow
and red lights while nitrogen exudes the blue
light.
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Already probed
NASA, the world-renowned space research center,
sent rockets a few years ago towards the area of
the occurrence of the lights. It was a probe
carrying multiple instruments to study the
electromagnetic energy that heats the
thermosphere. You should also know on the
Northern Lights tour in Iceland that the ISS
frequently takes pictures of the Aurora from
space.
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Legendary stuff
This fact is quite surprising because it is a
myth related to soccer, a game loved by all. The
players of a specific nation believe that the
lights appear when spirits of dead players engage
in a match in the sky with the head of a walrus.
Another story goes on to declare that the
Northern Lights are directional illuminations
that guide the souls of the deceased to heaven.
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You can hear it
The upper atmosphere, where the lights dance
around, is quite far from the surface and is too
thin to transmit sound waves. Even after that,
some people claim to be able to hear the activity
of the lights. Though, there is one case where a
microphone detected audible sound that was
evidently of the Aurora. Some research groups are
also claiming now that they have sound records.
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Check for a long time
Many celebrated scientists of the past including
Galileo spotted the display of lights. It was
also seen in years as early as the fourth
century. The earliest account of the lights
appeared in the clay tablets of Babylonia. The
emperor of that period noted it down as a strange
glow of red lights in the sky. If you want to go
back later in time, then there are cave paintings
claiming the presence of the lights.
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Will always be there
There is no end to the lights, and they will
remain there in the sky long after every human
being ceases to exist. They even appear in the
daytime, but your naked eyes will only be able to
spot in the darkness of night. These facts are
sure to grab hold of your attention. The lights
are elusive, but when a travel company, such as
the one mentioned above, are going to direct you,
there is no way youre going to miss it.
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