aurora borealis

Hey smarter - than - me folks: Is the Aurora a predictable, almost guaranteed event? I'd really like to be able to cross it off the bucket list. Should the wife and I decide to take a cruise or some other vacation to say, Iceland, would we be pretty much guaranteed to see it?

Watch this thread, I'll post updates. A month or so ago the Sun sent us a plasma cloud of charged particles from solar flare that sent a coronal mass ejection or CME crashing into the Earth. The aurora borealis or northern lights were visible across half of Europe when the CME reached Earth. It...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/13/northern.lights.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11dec_themis.htm I love science, and NASA just keeps doing cooler and cooler stuff. When I first read about how magnetic fields connecting th Earth and Sun...