Emily Lakdawalla • Apr 05, 2010
Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora
Space Station astronaut Soichi Noguchi is an awesome photographer. This image is going straight into the "Best of 2010" collection.
![Pretty picture: Fly through the aurora](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_532x800_crop_center-center_line/20150727_aurora-space-station-100406-02.jpg 532w)
Noguchi took this photo from his berth aboard the International Space Station on April 5, 2010, as the Station flew through Earth's aurora at 28,000 kilometers per hour. A geomagnetic storm was exciting an unusual level of auroral activity at the time. A Russian Progress module is visible docked to the Station in the middle ground. The photo appeared on Noguchi's Twitter feed, followed at the time by 174,000 people. Phil Plait has a little more information on what we can see in the photo.
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