Rovaniemi city

We still haven't recovered from the excitement of seeing the northern lights the previous nite. Nevertheless, we got up at 9am so we could explore the much neglected city of Rovaniemi.

Museum of the northern lights

We visited the museum of the northern lights. It was really nice especially when we could relate the scene last night with the exhibits and explanations. Alright let me try to explain the phenomenon of the Aurora:

The Aurora Borealis is the result of atoms and molecules hitting against the atmosphere of Earth. The solar wind blows at these atoms and molecules which are then attracted by the north and south poles of the Earth (so theoretically, you could see this in the south pole provided that there is land mass there) The colour of the Aurora is then determined by the percentage of Oxygen, nitrogen and other gases in the atmosphere. Green is the most common form because it's associated to Oxygen. Other colours are red and violet.

I hope I remembered all these correctly.

Foot trail on a frozen lake

The frozen lake

Frozen sea with foot trail and snow mobile trails.. nice place to snow mobile

Walking on the frozen sea

Nice view along the sea

Admist the fog

Dai Da admist the fog along the sea

Sunset; beautiful

path along the sea

Rovaniemi city centre