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Stowaway From Algeria Found Barely Alive At Paris Airport
Skies In Mongolia Mysteriously Turn Blood-red. Pictures Show Eerie Phenomena
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n an extraordinary celestial display, the skies over Mongolia turned deep, blood-red as the country experienced one of the rarest auroral events on Friday and early Saturday.
The intense colouration is attributed to the initial impact of a significant solar storm that collided with Earth, creating a spectacle that left onlookers in awe.
The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically occurs closer to the poles and is often green in colour. However, the auroras seen in Mongolia were of a strik- ing crimson hue, a rarity caused by the interaction of solar particles with oxygen at high altitudes — over 241 kilometres above the Earth's surface, where the atmosphere is much thin- ner.
This particular shade of red is considered the most uncommon colour of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, and its appear-
ance is closely linked to periods of intense solar activity.
The ongoing solar storm responsible for this event was the result of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun, which occurred on November 27, 2023. These CMEs sent a barrage of high-energy particles hurtling towards Earth, with the first wave reaching our planet late on November 29.
The red auroras are a con- sequence of these solar particles colliding with oxy- gen molecules at higher altitudes. At such great heights, the density of oxy- gen is lower, and the colli- sions occur less frequently, resulting in the emission of red light rather than the more common green. This process is akin to the way neon lights operate, with excited gas atoms releasing photons of light when they return to their ground state.
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By Bradford Betz Fox News
A stowaway was found barely alive in the undercar- riage bay of an airplane after
it landed in
Paris Thursday morning, accord- ing to reports. Security sources told Reuters that the Air Algeria air- plane had come from the Western Algerian town of Oran, embarking on the two-and-a- half hour flight
to Paris Orly air- port.
The stowaway, who was not identified but is believed to be in his 20s, was dis-
covered during technical checks. He had no ID on him and was taken to an area hospital in seri- ous condition because of severe hypother- mia, per AFP.
Commercial air- planes often fly at 30,000 to 40,000 feet altitude. Stowaways dar- ing to brave the journey in the unpressurized wheel-houses and cargo holds of planes can expect to face between minus 50 and 60 Celsius as well as a lack of oxy- gen.
In 2019, the body of a suspected stowaway fell hundreds of meters from a plane flying over southwest London, landing in the garden of a man's home, just missing him as he sunbathed.
In 2015, the body of a stowaway on a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow landed on a shop in Richmond, south- west London. A second stowaway survived the 10- hour flight and was found in the undercarriage of the plane.
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