{"id":136689,"date":"2022-03-11T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ice-holds-evidence-of-ancient-massive-solar-storm"},"modified":"2022-03-11T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T09:38:24","slug":"ice-holds-evidence-of-ancient-massive-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/ice-holds-evidence-of-ancient-massive-solar-storm","title":{"rendered":"Ice holds evidence of ancient, massive solar storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ice-holds-evidence-of-ancient-massive-solar-storm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An analysis of radioactive chemicals in ice cores indicates one of the most powerful solar storms ever hit Earth around 7,176 B.C.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(Inside Science) \u2014 For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, at a time when many of our ancestors were wearing animal skins, the northern skies would have been bright with flickering lights.<\/p>\n<p>Telltale chemical isotopes in ancient ice cores suggest one of the most massive solar storms ever took place around 7,176 B.C., and it would have been noticed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that most high-energy events are accompanied by geomagnetic storms,\u201d said Raimund Muscheler, a professor of geology at Sweden\u2019s Lund University. \u201cSo it\u2019s likely that there were visible auroras.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An analysis of radioactive chemicals in ice cores indicates one of the most powerful solar storms ever hit Earth around 7,176 B.C. (Inside Science) \u2014 For a few nights more than 9,000 years ago, at a time when many of our ancestors were wearing animal skins, the northern skies would have been bright with flickering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136689","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}