DR. FLORIAN HANTZSCHE

BIOLOGIST

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!NEW PROJECT:   "OPERATION WALKÜRE"!

Winter time is polar light time! The hunt for Aurora borealis is opened from 10th to 20th of February 2012 in Tromsø/Norway.

The vikings believed that the polar light was the sign for the presence of the Angels of Death (Walküren) searching the dead heroes slaughtered on a battlefield somewhere. Their suits of golden armour reflected the moonlight and created this strange light on the firmament.

Science is able to explain the appearance of polar lights nowadays. High energetic particles of the solar wind strike on the earth atmosphere and change the electronic configuration of air molecules. After a short while the molecules are disexcited and emit light.

Whatever you believe the phenomenon of polar lights will fascinate you anyway!

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Aurora borealis at Hopavagen 2001

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