Image Archive of the Historic May 11th Geomagnetic Storm

By Margaret Mooney • 13 May 2024

Thousands if not millions of people took colorful photos of the Northern Lights during the early hours of May 11th during a remarkable G5 geomagnetic storm that expanded Aurora Borealis activity southward to unusually low latitudes in the United States.

The JPSS fleet of polar-orbiting spacecraft captured eight monochromatic VIIRS Day Night Band images over North America documenting the historic space weather event from a satellite perspective, archived here for posterity and future research. (click on each individual image to see the full resolution version)

NOAA-20 Day Night Band Images