{"id":178235,"date":"2023-12-13T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-great-solar-wind-disappearance-groundbreaking-discovery-by-nasas-maven-mission"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:22:27","slug":"the-great-solar-wind-disappearance-groundbreaking-discovery-by-nasas-maven-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-great-solar-wind-disappearance-groundbreaking-discovery-by-nasas-maven-mission","title":{"rendered":"The Great Solar Wind Disappearance: Groundbreaking Discovery by NASA\u2019s MAVEN Mission"},"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\/IhF9EeK6qmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, NASA\u2019s MAVEN mission observed a rare solar event causing the solar wind to \u201cdisappear.\u201d This led to significant changes in Mars\u2019 atmosphere and magnetosphere, including their expansion. Scientists, astounded by the data, formed a working group to study this phenomenon. Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/SciTechDaily.com\">SciTechDaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> NASA \u2019s MAVEN detected a unique solar event that drastically affected Mars \u2019 atmosphere, offering vital insights into the planet\u2019s interaction with solar phenomena.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, NASA\u2019s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission observed the dramatic and unexpected \u201cdisappearance\u201d of a stream of charged particles constantly emanating off the Sun, known as the solar wind. This was caused by a special type of solar event that was so powerful, it created a void in its wake as it traveled through the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2022, NASA\u2019s MAVEN mission observed a rare solar event causing the solar wind to \u201cdisappear.\u201d This led to significant changes in Mars\u2019 atmosphere and magnetosphere, including their expansion. Scientists, astounded by the data, formed a working group to study this phenomenon. Credit: SciTechDaily.com. NASA \u2019s MAVEN detected a unique solar event that drastically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178235","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=178235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}