While the stories focus on recent results, the non-scientific versions contain useful background information for a general audience. Both pages provide references for further reading. The two aurora pages are part of a series of Web pages on the site dealing with solar-terrestrial relations and the solar system. Like other material on the site, the aurora pages are aimed at students in grades K-12. The Athena site provides instruction material, lesson plans, and activities on topics in the earth and space sciences.
Activities frequently require the use of real data.
The Aurora This is the aurora Web site of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. The latter is available in Spanish and Japanese as well as in English. The site also provides a weekly forecast of auroral activity over Alaska, links to a series of brief popular articles on the aurora produced by the Geophysical Institute, and a list of FAQs on the aurora. A Beginner's Guide to the Earth's Magnetosphere A concise, clearly-written, informative article written by S. W. H. Cowley. The magnetosphere page of the Oulu Textbook, with links to other pages that deal with different magnetospheric regions and processes.