{"id":82178,"date":"2012-11-05T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/european-satellites-identify-breaches-on-earths-magnetic-field\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:57:40","slug":"european-satellites-identify-breaches-on-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/european-satellites-identify-breaches-on-earths-magnetic-field\/","title":{"rendered":"European Satellites Identify Breaches on Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, European Space Agency, Radiation, Magnetic Field<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 11\/02\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Screen%20shot%202012-11-05%20at%203_02_34%20PM.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>ESA\u2019s simulation of plasma whirlpools witnessed by the Cluster mission in the Earth\u2019s magnetosphere.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: ESA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>An <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (ESA) study from its Cluster satellite mission indicates that the magnetic field \u2013 or magnetosphere \u2013 that protects life on Earth from the Sun\u2019s excess radiation, regularly experiences harmful \u201cbreaches.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Cluster mission involves four satellites that orbit the Earth through the magnetosphere measuring changes in our planet\u2019s electric and magnetic fields caused by the sun\u2019s fluctuating solar winds. Analysis from Cluster\u2019s data detected large vortices of solar plasma arising as solar wind made contact with the magnetosphere creating whirlpools of a sort. Known as the Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (KHW), these whirlpools looks similar to our ocean waves.  <\/p>\n<p>These plasma waves have the power to suddenly break apart magnetic field lines, which creates breaches in Earth\u2019s protective magnetic field allowing solar particles to pass at different locations and under different conditions.  <\/p>\n<p>Strong explosions of charged particles from solar wind can cause disruptions in GPS and radio satellite communications, and even power grids on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: GPS, European Space Agency, Radiation, Magnetic Field Publication Date: 11\/02\/2012 ESA\u2019s simulation of plasma whirlpools witnessed by the Cluster mission in the Earth\u2019s magnetosphere. Image credit: ESA An European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) study from its Cluster satellite mission indicates that the magnetic field \u2013 or magnetosphere \u2013 that protects life on Earth from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}