{"id":198815,"date":"2024-11-05T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/lightning-strikes-kick-off-a-game-of-electron-pinball-in-space"},"modified":"2024-11-05T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:22:30","slug":"lightning-strikes-kick-off-a-game-of-electron-pinball-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/lightning-strikes-kick-off-a-game-of-electron-pinball-in-space","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes kick off a game of electron pinball in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lightning-strikes-kick-off-a-game-of-electron-pinball-in-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers at CU Boulder led by an undergraduate student have discovered a new link between weather on Earth and weather in space. The group used satellite data to show that lightning storms on our planet can knock especially high-energy, or \u201cextra-hot,\u201d electrons out of the inner radiation belt\u2014a region of space filled with charged particles that surrounds Earth like an inner tube.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s results could help satellites and even astronauts avoid dangerous radiation in space. This is one kind of downpour you don\u2019t want to get caught in, said lead author Max Feinland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When lightning strikes, the electrons come pouring down. In a new study, researchers at CU Boulder led by an undergraduate student have discovered a new link between weather on Earth and weather in space. The group used satellite data to show that lightning storms on our planet can knock especially high-energy, or \u201cextra-hot,\u201d electrons out [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198815","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}