Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-03 | Page 14 | Aurora Makes Sound like Hissing Steam

AURORA MAKES SOUND LIKE HISSING STEAM NEW YORK UP Besides providing provid- provid Ing natures nature's amphitheater with gi gi- gantIc draperies In Iridescent hues the Nor Northern hern Lights a also o produce accompanying ac accompanying companying sound effects Some scientists have regarded skeptically stories told by Eskimos that the Aurora Borealis can be heard They have contested t. t the e phenomena on the ground that the Northern Lights do not nol approach the ground sufficiently for any sound to be heard granting that thal sound Is emitted Actually however the Aurora Borealis is not only apparent to the sight but also l o Is 15 audible to te ear according to a report made by b Clark Is M. M Garber Gabr In a recent Issue of Sd ence One night during a reindeer drive Garber was traveling across the dl- dl vIde at al the head of oC river on the Ar Arctic tlc coast near Cape PrIce ot of Wales The divIde has an ele ele tion of 2000 feet teet It was 2 o'clock In the morning he explaIns when ray my native na na- tive driver and I broke camp In order to overtake the tho reindeer herd ahead I of us Ar Ac we climbed wIth our dog team to the summit or of the divIde wt we were spellbound by the magnificent display of aurora the most wonderful wonder wonder- ful display I have ever witnessed during dur dur- ing my eight years ears of life among the Eskimos I I lie He relates that the spectacle was waso wasso so o awe inspiring thAt he stopped the dog team in the dead of the Arctic night and with his driver just absorbed ab the majestic beauty of the lights As we sat upon the sled and the great beams passed directly over our heads he says sas they emitted a dis dis- audible sound which bled the tue crackling of steam escaping from a small jet Each beam of light passed with quite precise uniformity of at duration A projected beam required re re- six to eIght minutes to pass while the continuous beam would emit the crackling sound for a 3 minute or more