Seven high school students stand smiling with their arms folded behind their mentor, who is seated at a desk. On the desk is a tablet, along with white cups, a laptop, a globe, and a prototype that looks like a large red LEGO block.

NASA High School Interns Design a STEVE Satellite

Posted on January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 by aurorasaurus

NASA SEES summer intern Anna MacLennan reflects on her experience on the Earth From Space Aerospace Engineering team designing a satellite and creating experiments to study STEVE.

An Interview with Jordan: STEVE Science Fair Winner

Posted on July 11, 2019 by aurorasaurus

Jordan, an 8th grade student from Calgary, recently won the Rideau Park Science Fair with her poster on the new STEVE phenomena. Jordan tells Aurorasaurus more about her project and interest in aurora in this Q&A article. Read through to the end for some questions she asked Dr. Liz MacDonald, Aurorasaurus founder, also!

STEVE and the Milky Way at Childs Lake, Manitoba, Canada. Image courtesy of Krista Trinder

Mystery of Purple Lights in Sky Solved With Help From Citizen Scientists

Posted on March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 by aurorasaurus

For the first time, scientists had ground and satellite views of Steve. Scientists have now learned, despite its ordinary name, that Steve may be an extraordinary puzzle piece in painting a better picture of how Earth’s magnetic fields function and interact with charged particles in space. The findings are published in a study released today in Science Advances.