{"id":120246,"date":"2021-03-05T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-first-known-space-hurricane-pours-electron-rain"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:22:40","slug":"the-first-known-space-hurricane-pours-electron-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/the-first-known-space-hurricane-pours-electron-rain","title":{"rendered":"The first known space hurricane pours electron \u2018rain\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-known-space-hurricane-pours-electron-rain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellite observations have revealed an unprecedented \u2018space hurricane\u2019 in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, hinting that such events could occur on other planetary bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have previously documented hurricanes in the lower atmospheres of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Similar phenomena have even been spotted on the Sun. But the existence of space hurricanes \u2014 hurricane-like circulation patterns in planets\u2019 upper atmospheres \u2014 has been uncertain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere cooks up a storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite observations have revealed an unprecedented \u2018space hurricane\u2019 in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, hinting that such events could occur on other planetary bodies. Scientists have previously documented hurricanes in the lower atmospheres of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Similar phenomena have even been spotted on the Sun. But the existence of space hurricanes \u2014 hurricane-like circulation patterns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120246","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=120246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}