{"id":195939,"date":"2024-09-09T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nasa-discovers-a-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth"},"modified":"2024-09-09T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T20:22:27","slug":"nasa-discovers-a-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nasa-discovers-a-long-sought-global-electric-field-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth"},"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\/UCM1MaYC5lM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Discovering Earth\u2019s third global energy Field. \ud83c\udf00<\/p>\n<p>A NASA-led rocket team has finally discovered the long-sought electric field driving particles from Earth\u2019s atmosphere into space \u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>First hypothesized over 60 years ago, it is \u201can agent of chaos\u201d whose impacts are still not fully known: go.nasa.gov\/3XcDDLD<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it drove atmospheric escape above Earth\u2019s North and South Poles. Measurements from a suborbital rocket have confirmed the existence of the ambipolar field and quantified its strength, revealing its role in driving atmospheric escape and shaping our ionosphere \u2014 a layer of the upper atmosphere \u2014 more broadly. The paper was published today in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovering Earth\u2019s third global energy Field. \ud83c\udf00 A NASA-led rocket team has finally discovered the long-sought electric field driving particles from Earth\u2019s atmosphere into space \u203c\ufe0f First hypothesized over 60 years ago, it is \u201can agent of chaos\u201d whose impacts are still not fully known: go.nasa.gov\/3XcDDLD An international team of scientists has successfully measured a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195939","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\/195939","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}