{"id":170718,"date":"2023-08-27T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/solar-orbiter-observes-rapid-tiny-jets-on-sun-that-may-be-the-solar-winds-power-source"},"modified":"2023-08-27T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:23:18","slug":"solar-orbiter-observes-rapid-tiny-jets-on-sun-that-may-be-the-solar-winds-power-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/solar-orbiter-observes-rapid-tiny-jets-on-sun-that-may-be-the-solar-winds-power-source","title":{"rendered":"Solar Orbiter observes rapid, tiny jets on sun that may be the solar wind\u2019s power source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-orbiter-observes-rapid-tiny-jets-on-sun-that-may-be-the-solar-winds-power-source2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though these picojets may be small and last no more than 60 seconds, as Chitta pointed out, they are still powerful in their own right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018pico\u2019 prefix refers to the energy scale of the jet. The picoflare jets that we discovered are a trillion times energetically weaker compared to large X-class flares,\u201d he said, X-class flares being the sun\u2019s most powerful explosive outflows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill,\u201d he continued, \u201cthe energy content of a single picoflare jet that lives for about 1 minute is equal to the average power consumed by about 10,000 households in the UK over an entire year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though these picojets may be small and last no more than 60 seconds, as Chitta pointed out, they are still powerful in their own right. \u201cThe \u2018pico\u2019 prefix refers to the energy scale of the jet. The picoflare jets that we discovered are a trillion times energetically weaker compared to large X-class flares,\u201d he said, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718","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=170718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}