Free Writing - Northern Lights

(Free Writing is basically just writing about whatever you want to write about. We only do this on Mondays.)      

           Free Writing - Genius hour

Today on another Monday Mia and I are doing our genius hour. We thought about what to do a genius hour and we chose to do Northern lights!!!. Here's a random fact -  The airy glow comes from collisions between fast moving electrons from the magnetosphere (the region of space controlled by Earth’s magnetic field). Electrons transfer some of their energy to these molecules (A group of atoms bonded together/the smallest particles that can ever exist.) when they collide; this transfer of energy is said to “excite” them. An excited molecule eventually returns to its non-excited state by releasing photons(A particle representing a quantum of light or light particles). Large numbers of these collisions create enough light for us to see. You will be able to see more in my next blog post about the actual slide :D.