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IRF's Popular Science Page
IRF:s populÀrvetenskapliga sidor

Mother-of-pearl cloud over Kiruna Church
PĂ€rlemormoln Över Kiruna kyrka.
(Photo: Sheila Kirkwood, IRF)

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Pages on IRF's web site
Sidor som finns pÄ IRF:s webbplats

Public Outreach

• IRF:s PR-insatser
  (IRF's public outreach activities - in Swedish)

Aurora (Northern Lights)
Norrsken

• Om Norrsken (Aurora Borealis) - pĂ„ svenska
• About the Northern lights (Aurora Borealis) - in English
• When is the best time to see the aurora in Kiruna? - in English
• Aurora visibility in Kiruna 2003-2005 - in English
• Space weather forecasts from IRF in Lund (RymdvĂ€dersprognoser)
• Auroral pictures and video sequences/Norrskensbilder och videofilmsekvenser
• All-sky camera picture in real time/Realtidsbild frĂ„n firmamentkameran

Space and satellites
Rymden och satelliter

• What is Space Weather? - in English
• Rymdmiljö och satelliter - pĂ„ svenska
• Earth's magnetosphere/Jordens magnetosfĂ€r
  • The Swarm mission in the Earth's magnetosphere - in English
• Comets/Kometer
  • The Rosetta mission to a comet - in English
  • Rosetta-missionen till en komet - pĂ„ svenska
• Mars
  • Mars Express and IRF's instrument ASPERA-3 - in English
  • Mars Express och IRF:s instrument ASPERA-3 - pĂ„ svenska
• Venus
  • Venus Express and IRF's instrument ASPERA-4 - in English
  • Venus Express och IRF:s instrument ASPERA-4 - pĂ„ svenska
  • Venus och ASPERA-4 - en kort presentation (Ă„ven som pdf-fil (580 k)) - pĂ„ svenska
• Saturn/Saturnus
  • The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn - in English
  • Cassini-Huygens-missionen till Saturnus - pĂ„ svenska
• Mercury/Merkurius
  • The BepiColombo mission to Mercury - in English

Atmosphere
AtmosfÀren

• Mother-of-pearl clouds (polar stratospheric clouds) - in English

General
AllmÀnt

• The weather at IRF-Kiruna - in English
• Links to IRF's web gallery, Flickr page and YouTube channel

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Red aurora over Kiruna/Rött norrsken över Kiruna. (Photo: Masatoshi Yamauchi, IRF)

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Links to pages on other web sites (mostly in English)
Sidor som finns pÄ andra stÀllen (mestadels pÄ engelska)

pÄ svenska

On Space Physics and Astronomy
Om rymdfysik och astronomi

• Sweden Solar System (Termination Chock in the Sweden Solar System is located at the Space Campus in Kiruna)
• Fysikens kosmos - pĂ„ svenska
• Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere
• Educational Guide to Space
• The Nine Planets
• Spotlights at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)
• "From Stargazers to Starships"

Aurora or the Polar Lights
Norrsken och Sydsken

• Aurora Borealis - the northern lights (Article from Way North, Tromsö Museum, Norway)
• Auroral Observatory (University of Tromsö, Norway)
• The Aurora Page (Michigan Technological University, USA)
• Aurora Service Europe's aurora forecast
• Kiruna Aurora Photo Guide - a guide to aurora photography by Kiruna photographer Mia StĂ„lnacke (PDF file)
• NORDLYS - Northern Lights (Andöya Rocket Range, Norway)
• Secrets of the Polar Aurora

Space Weather
RymdvÀder

• Human impacts of space weather and solar storms
• Spaceweather.com
• Space Environment Center (NOAA/National Weather Service, USA)

Space Activities in Sweden
Rymdaktiviteter i Sverige

• Rymdforum - pĂ„ svenska
• Rymdbolaget (Swedish Space Corporation)
• Rymdstyrelsen (Swedish National Space Board)

Atmospheric Physics
AtmosfÀrfysik

• The Ozone Hole Tour
• Environment Canada
• Stratospheric Ozone - an electronic textbook (NASA, USA)
• South Pole Ozone Hole Animation (NASA, USA)
• ESPHERE Higher Atmosphere
• AllmĂ€nt om ozon (SMHI) - pĂ€ svenska

Questions on Physics
FrÄgor om fysik

• Nationellt Resurscentrum för Fysik - pĂ„ svenska

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