{"id":196,"date":"2007-12-12T08:20:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/archives\/196"},"modified":"2007-12-12T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T13:20:18","slug":"magnetic-ropes-are-causing-auroras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/magnetic-ropes-are-causing-auroras\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic &#8220;ropes&#8221; are causing Auroras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Space.com is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/071211-northern-lights-final.html\">reporting<\/a> that a fleet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/themis\/main\/\">NASA spacecraft<\/a> launched less than eight months ago has revealed new insights into the forces that cause the northern lights, including giant magnetic &#8220;ropes&#8221; between Earth and the sun. Understanding the cause of auroras will help scientists solve the mystery around solar flares and what causes them and get a handle on the outer space weather. I don&#8217;t so much understand the geo-physics of why the solar winds slams into the earth&#8217;s magnetic field in the magnetosphere. I&#8217;m simply enamoured by the spectacular shows, gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/aurora\/gallery.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/istp\/outreach\/auroras.html\">here<\/a>. Chasing Auroras? I could take this for a living!<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/spaceweather\/aurora\/images\/30sep01\/Hoffman3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPhotograph by Phil Hoffman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space.com is reporting that a fleet of NASA spacecraft launched less than eight months ago has revealed new insights into the forces that cause the northern lights, including giant magnetic &#8220;ropes&#8221; between Earth and the sun. Understanding the cause of auroras will help scientists solve the mystery around solar flares and what causes them and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}