By- Shivanshi Srivastava
The skies over Mongolia turned deep, blood-red as the country experienced one of the rarest auroral events on Friday and early Saturday.
The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically occurs closer to the poles and is often green in colour.
The auroras seen in Mongolia were of a striking crimson hue.
Event was caused by the interaction of solar particles with oxygen at high altitude over 241 km above the Earth's surface.
The ongoing solar storm responsible for this event was the result of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun.
These CMEs sent a barrage of high-energy particles hurtling towards Earth, with the first wave reaching our planet.
The red auroras are a consequence of these solar particles colliding with oxygen molecules at higher altitudes.
At great heights, the density of oxygen is lower, and collisions occur less frequently, resulting in the emission of red light rather than the common green.