{"id":108010,"date":"2020-06-01T08:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mars-does-have-a-magnetic-field-of-sorts-and-weve-finally-got-data-to-map-it"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T15:25:18","slug":"mars-does-have-a-magnetic-field-of-sorts-and-weve-finally-got-data-to-map-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/mars-does-have-a-magnetic-field-of-sorts-and-weve-finally-got-data-to-map-it","title":{"rendered":"Mars Does Have a Magnetic Field of Sorts \u2013 And We\u2019ve Finally Got Data to Map It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-does-have-a-magnetic-field-of-sorts-and-weve-finally-got-data-to-map-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike Earth, Mars doesn\u2019t have a global magnetic field to protect it from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/live-updates-nasa-is-announcing-what-happened-to-mars-atmosphere-right-now\">the rigours of space weather<\/a> \u2013 but it does have spots of local, induced magnetism.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have been able to create an incredible, detailed map of the electric currents that are responsible for shaping these magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>It gives scientists a much greater understanding of how Mars might have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/live-updates-nasa-is-announcing-what-happened-to-mars-atmosphere-right-now\">lost much of its atmosphere<\/a> over the course of billions of years, as well as how interactions between the solar winds and Mars\u2019 magnetosphere are playing out today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Earth, Mars doesn\u2019t have a global magnetic field to protect it from the rigours of space weather \u2013 but it does have spots of local, induced magnetism. Now, researchers have been able to create an incredible, detailed map of the electric currents that are responsible for shaping these magnetic fields. It gives scientists a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108010","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}