Go to: SOUTHERN LIGHTS Antarctica has few observers when the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, become visible during the dark winter months. But one photographer braving the cold season at the South Pole took this photograph of the atmospheric marvel over the National Science Foundation's Amundsen-Scott research station. The phenomenon, like its better-known counterpart the Northern Lights, occurs when charged particles from the solar wind collide with the upper atmosphere. (07/17/02)