{"id":160571,"date":"2023-03-18T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-answer-to-the-mystery-of-cloudy-filters-on-satellites"},"modified":"2023-03-18T17:36:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:36:20","slug":"scientists-discover-answer-to-the-mystery-of-cloudy-filters-on-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/scientists-discover-answer-to-the-mystery-of-cloudy-filters-on-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover answer to the mystery of cloudy filters on satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-answer-to-the-mystery-of-cloudy-filters-on-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a mystery happening in some satellites facing the sun, and scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) are on the case. The team has been trying to figure out what is clouding up and compromising the performance of tiny, thin metal membranes that filter sunlight as it enters detectors that monitor the sun\u2019s ultraviolet (UV) rays.<\/p>\n<p>These detectors can warn us about impending solar storms\u2014bursts of radiation from the surface of the sun\u2014that could reach Earth and temporarily disrupt communications or interfere with GPS readings.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-case-cloudy-filters-mystery-degrading.html\">disproved the prevailing theory<\/a>: that this clouding was a buildup of carbon on the surface of the filters from organic sources stowing away on the satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a mystery happening in some satellites facing the sun, and scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) are on the case. The team has been trying to figure out what is clouding up and compromising the performance of tiny, thin metal membranes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160571","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}