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: Because nitrogen is harder to "excite" than oxygen, purple lights generally only appear during strong geomagnetic storms when solar particles have enough energy to penetrate deeper into the atmosphere.

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: These colors form in the denser parts of the upper atmosphere, below 60 miles, where nitrogen is more abundant than oxygen. : Because nitrogen is harder to "excite" than