{"id":120163,"date":"2021-03-03T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:22:50","slug":"space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Space hurricane\u2019 spotted above Earth for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A first-ever \u201cspace hurricane\u201d was spotted whirling above the Earth, scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>The 600-mile-wide mass of plasma occurred several hundreds of miles above the North Pole, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-21459-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to a study in the journal Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible,\u201d said Mike Lockwood, a space scientist at the University of Reading and co-author of the study, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR854520.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first-ever \u201cspace hurricane\u201d was spotted whirling above the Earth, scientists said. The 600-mile-wide mass of plasma occurred several hundreds of miles above the North Pole, according to a study in the journal Nature Communications. \u201cUntil now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120163","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}