Northern Lights
The
best time to see Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) is in the dark hours
of the Canadian winter. The night time show of swirling lights and curtain-like
arcs of changing colors has understandably fascinated those fortunate
enough to witness them. The Inuit (Eskimo) people of Arctic Canada believed
these displays were the gods playing games with either walrus or caribou
skulls. The Europeans believed they were formed by light reflected on
the Arctic ice. Now it is understood by men of science to be caused
by the sun's activities and solar winds disturbing subatomic particles
causing the spectacular colors, up to seventy kilometers above the earth's
surface.