Solar Storm Gift! View the Aurora Borealis This Winter in a Private ‘Igloo’ on a Lake

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Ever awakened in a floating igloo to the thunderclap of ice breaking from the glacier outside? Or had your morning coffee upset by the mini tidal wave after one these freshly fractured icebergs splashed into your lagoon? Well, no, nor had I.

Those were just some of the unexpected encounters my wife and I had on our last-minute, late-summer break in Iceland. We ended up in an “Igloo Boat,” a yurt-like structure with a private deck on the Fjallsárlón Glacier Lagoon, on Iceland's southeast coast. Floor-to-ceiling windows — and a glass ceiling — make for an immersive experience as you bob alone on the water at the melting end one of  the world's great ice caps.

During the summer, the two available pods float on the lagoon. In the winter, for peak aurora borealis viewing season, they'll sit on the ice as soon as the lagoon freezes over, around mid-January.

What is an Aurora Borealis? NASA Explains

Aurora Borealis is caused by the Sun. The Sun sends lots of energy and small particles our way, apart from heat and light. The protective magnetic field around Earth shields us from most of the energy and particles. But when the Sun sends huge amounts of energy, there is a constant streaming solar wind and there are also solar storms generated and that causes . During one kind of solar storm called a coronal mass ejection, the Sun burps out a huge bubble of electrified gas that can travel through space at high speeds.

Some of this energy can breach the Earth's magnetic field at the north and south poles and reach the atmosphere. This energy and particles interact with gases in our atmosphere resulting in beautiful displays of light in the sky. Oxygen gives off green and red light. Nitrogen glows blue and purple.

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