{"id":146248,"date":"2022-09-13T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-esas-solar-orbiter-records-a-solar-switchback-proving-they-exist"},"modified":"2022-09-13T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:25:00","slug":"the-esas-solar-orbiter-records-a-solar-switchback-proving-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-esas-solar-orbiter-records-a-solar-switchback-proving-they-exist","title":{"rendered":"The ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter records a solar \u201cswitchback\u201d proving they exist"},"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\/gc21NKnk5es?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new data could help explain why and how solar wind accelerates at great speeds across the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter probe made the first-ever remote sensing observation of a solar \u201cswitchback\u201d, according to a blog post from the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Source: ESA\/ATG medialab.<\/p>\n<p>The new data gathered by the mission sheds new light on a mysterious phenomenon that had only been hypothesized until now. It could help explain how solar wind is propelled across the solar system at incredibly fast speeds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/the-esas-solar-orbiter-records-a-solar-switchback-proving-they-exist\">Continue reading \u201cThe ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter records a solar \u201cswitchback\u201d proving they exist\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new data could help explain why and how solar wind accelerates at great speeds across the solar system. The European Space Agency\u2019s Solar Orbiter probe made the first-ever remote sensing observation of a solar \u201cswitchback\u201d, according to a blog post from the agency. The \u2018first evidence of a switchback in the solar corona\u2019 Source: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146248","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}