{"id":174296,"date":"2023-10-16T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/mysterious-singing-plasma-waves-detected-around-mercury"},"modified":"2023-10-16T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:24:09","slug":"mysterious-singing-plasma-waves-detected-around-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/mysterious-singing-plasma-waves-detected-around-mercury","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious \u2018Singing\u2019 Plasma Waves Detected Around Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-singing-plasma-waves-detected-around-mercury2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Around planets that have a magnetosphere, something magical happens.<\/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\/ap5CXHTiVi4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you listen with the right instruments, you can hear chirping and whistling, almost like the singing of birds at dawn and dusk. These so-called chorus waves have been recorded at Earth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ap5CXHTiVi4\">Jupiter<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6nxLXvqLp50\">Saturn<\/a>; and observed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.233.4759.106\">Uranus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.246.4936.1494\">Neptune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, led by astronomer Mitsunori Ozaki of Kanazawa University, scientists from Japan and France have detected them whistling around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mercury\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Mercury<\/a>, barren and alone as it skirts the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around planets that have a magnetosphere, something magical happens. If you listen with the right instruments, you can hear chirping and whistling, almost like the singing of birds at dawn and dusk. These so-called chorus waves have been recorded at Earth, and Jupiter, and Saturn; and observed at Uranus and Neptune. Now, led by astronomer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174296","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}