{"id":173636,"date":"2023-10-06T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ring-of-fire-eclipse-oct-14-will-be-practice-run-for-total-solar-eclipse-next-year"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:34:14","slug":"ring-of-fire-eclipse-oct-14-will-be-practice-run-for-total-solar-eclipse-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ring-of-fire-eclipse-oct-14-will-be-practice-run-for-total-solar-eclipse-next-year","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ring of fire\u2019 eclipse Oct. 14 will be practice run for total solar eclipse next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ring-of-fire-eclipse-oct-14-will-be-practice-run-for-total-solar-eclipse-next-year3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists generally, said NSF\u2019s Lisa Winter, will be able to view a very active corona \u2014 or upper atmosphere of the sun \u2014 during the precious minutes that the sun is nearly completely blocked by the moon. The sun is nearing its maximum of solar activity in its 11-year-cycle, unlike the last U.S. total solar eclipse of 2017, meaning that \u201cthe corona will be very active this time around,\u201d said Winter, who is NSF\u2019s program director for solar-terrestrial research.<\/p>\n<p>Solar activity has an immense impact on the ionosphere, which is a layer of Earth\u2019s atmosphere that interacts with electromagnetic radiation from above and below its extent. These interactions affect the propagation of radio signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists generally, said NSF\u2019s Lisa Winter, will be able to view a very active corona \u2014 or upper atmosphere of the sun \u2014 during the precious minutes that the sun is nearly completely blocked by the moon. The sun is nearing its maximum of solar activity in its 11-year-cycle, unlike the last U.S. total solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173636","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}