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Michael Porter

I’m seeing this graphic making the rounds without attribution - many versions have the info at the bottom cut off. The creator is alienyrox2 on reddit (reddit.com/user/alienyrox2/).

reddit.com/r/coolguides/commen

#Aurora #CreditYourSources #AltText

COLORS OF
AURORA

Solar wind (which contains
charged particles) interacts
with earth's magnetic field.

This interaction traps charged
particles at north and south
pole.

The charged particles
react with gasses in the
atmosphere and produce
excited and ionized gasses.
The color of light emitted
during the rection depends
on type of gas involved.

Above
150 miles or
241.4 km

Excited atomic
oxygen at high
altitudes
Only visible under intense
solar activity due to low
concentration of oxygen
at high altitudes.

Up to
150 miles or
241.4 km

Excited atomic
oxygen at lower
altitudes
Green light is emitted
instead of red due to
higher concentration
of oxygen.

Above
60 miles or
96.6 km
(purple)

Up to
60 miles or
96.6 km
(blue)

lonized molecular
nitrogen
The reaction involve
molecular nirogen
because atomic oxygen
is uncommon at low
altitudes. Similar to red,
blue and purple is
associated with intense
solar activity.

Source:
Canadian Space Agency.
(2014, April 29).
The colours of the Northern Lights.

Aurora Zone. (n.d.).
Why are the Northern Lights
sometimes coloured differently?

Space.com. (2017, October 11).
Northern Lights: What Causes the
Aurora Borealis & Where to See It.

Northern Lights Centre, Canada.
(n.d.).
Northern Lights.

Made by alienyrox.
28 comments
Mòrag

@MichaelPorter I hate the trend for adding "credit to original creator" or "dm for credit or removal". 🙄

Michael Porter

@morag It wasn’t that hard to track it down. Reverse image search on Google or TinEye!

Chris Armstrong

@morag @MichaelPorter
That's nothing compared to "no copyright intended".

Mòrag

@Rhodium103 @MichaelPorter yeah, I'm seeing that more now. Always on the verge of replying "well you infringed it anyway, intended or not! '

Michael Porter

@CStamp @morag Yeah, feels like they thought, “That ought to do it for due diligence… Whew, I’m tired!”

Carolyn

@MichaelPorter @morag Or just flat out trying to get clout for the work of others and don't want to be bothered with crediting the creators.

Michael Porter

A nice benefit of knowing the creator is that I was able to find a bunch of other cool stuff that they’ve made, also posted to Reddit (I know, I know…)

Human 3500

@MichaelPorter You should always put your attribution in a place where it can't be cut off like this.

Also, your graphic in my app didn't show the attribution unless I opened the graphic. Maybe you are seeing a bit of that as well.

Michael Porter

@human3500 Always a problem with different aspect ratios.

Michael Porter

@human3500 But I figure if people are that interested, they will have opened up the image as opposed to just looking at the preview.

Human 3500

@MichaelPorter My app displays what looks like the entire image - it crops it beautifully.

Michael Porter

@human3500 But, if I understand you correctly, the app *is* cutting parts of the image off for the preview?

Human 3500

@MichaelPorter The app is making the exact crop of the full image as the cropped image when it appears in my feed. So my feed consists of identical looking images - I have to expand them to see if the image is complete or cropped.

Michael Porter

@human3500 Okay. I think my app does something like that as well.

Human 3500

@MichaelPorter I've had that typo so often I know what you meant to say.

Michael Porter

@human3500 Ha, fixed! Just so you don’t think I was talking about a girlfriend or such 😄

Human 3500

@MichaelPorter it could be a man... It is 2024 and it's still acceptable. For now. It will be a different story in 2028.

Michael Porter replied to Human

@human3500 Hey, as long as they care about me and are good with all my flaws 😄

Michael Porter replied to Human

@human3500 You’re gonna need a bigger Venn diagram! 😄

SunnJax 🏳️‍🌈

@MichaelPorter Thank you for the complete version of this graphic.

Michael Porter

@SunnJax You’re welcome ☺️
More thanks to the creator of the graphic, though!

Schaf

@MichaelPorter this was a shitty habit on twitter and i hate that this habit comes up on fedi now.

Michael Porter

@schaf I understand it, a bit - I think most of the time it’s a little bit of laziness, or the urge to post quickly.

Not cool if someone is trying to pass work off as their own, though!

Schaf

@MichaelPorter by shitty habit i meant actively cutting away the watermarks or sources

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