{"id":102343,"date":"2020-02-13T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/hidden-portals-in-earths-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2020-02-13T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T03:42:30","slug":"hidden-portals-in-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/hidden-portals-in-earths-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Portals in Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-portals-in-earths-magnetic-field3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A favorite theme of science fiction is \u201cthe portal\u201d\u2014an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call them X-points or electron diffusion regions,\u201d explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. \u201cThey\u2019re places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, creating an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun\u2019s atmosphere 93 million miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite theme of science fiction is \u201cthe portal\u201d\u2014an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed\u2026 It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}