{"id":139961,"date":"2022-05-30T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/completely-new-type-of-magnetic-wave-discovered-sweeping-across-earths-outer-core"},"modified":"2022-05-30T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T06:22:18","slug":"completely-new-type-of-magnetic-wave-discovered-sweeping-across-earths-outer-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/completely-new-type-of-magnetic-wave-discovered-sweeping-across-earths-outer-core","title":{"rendered":"Completely New Type of Magnetic Wave Discovered Sweeping Across Earth\u2019s Outer Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7CBgbkktdIo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth\u2019s interior is anything but peaceful, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes taking place deep down below our feet. Using information from ESA\u2019s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth\u2019s outer core every seven years. This fascinating finding, presented today at ESA\u2019s Living Planet Symposium, opens a new window into a world we can never see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/earths-magnetosphere-protecting-our-planet-from-harmful-space-radiation\/>Earth\u2019s magnetic field<\/a> is like a huge bubble protecting us from the onslaught of cosmic radiation and charged particles carried by powerful winds that escape the Sun\u2019s gravitational pull and stream across the Solar System. Without our magnetic field, life as we know it could not exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth\u2019s interior is anything but peaceful, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes taking place deep down below our feet. Using information from ESA\u2019s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139961","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}