Do the Northern Lights exactly mirror the Southern Lights?

Looking at the auroras from space, they look like almost circular bands of light around the North and South Poles. At the North Pole, it's called aurora borealis, or northern lights, and at the South Pole it's called the aurora australis, or southern lights. read more

No. But southern and northern hemispheres have correlated upper atmospheric events including aurora especially between sites with the same geo-magnetic (not geo-graphic) coordinates. For example, the lab I managed at Mawson run experiments with a lab in Tromso in Norway. read more

The southern (and northern) lights are magnificent green, red, orange, and pink light displays that result when solar particles collide with gases around the Earth's magnetic poles. Though that patriarch of Pacific exploration, Captain Cook, was the first European to make note of the southern lights in 1773, they'd been the stuff of Oceanian folklore for centuries. read more