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Observations from the 2024 Geophysical Plasma Expedition

Observations from the 2024 Geophysical Plasma Expedition

Chasing the aurora from Cambridge, MA to Fairbanks, AK

July 2, 2025 | Shon M.

We stand spread across a frozen hilltop, gazing North at a pale green band low above the horizon. The landscape around us is blanketed in unbroken snow, appearing almost extraterrestrial in the flat light of the waxing crescent moon. We fidget to stay warm and murmur to one another about the slight undulations of the […]