{"id":199616,"date":"2024-11-16T21:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T03:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/solar-wind-power-likely-governs-uranus-thermosphere-temperature"},"modified":"2024-11-16T21:27:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T03:27:54","slug":"solar-wind-power-likely-governs-uranus-thermosphere-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/solar-wind-power-likely-governs-uranus-thermosphere-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Solar wind power likely governs Uranus\u2019 thermosphere temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-wind-power-likely-governs-uranus-thermosphere-temperature3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uranus\u2019s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades\u2014and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus\u2019 upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by Imperial College London scientists has determined that unpredictable long-term changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+wind\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar wind <\/a>\u2014the stream of particles and energy coming from the sun\u2014are behind the drop.<\/p>\n<p>The team predict Uranus\u2019 upper atmosphere should continue to get colder or reverse the trend and become hotter again depending on how the solar wind changes over the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uranus\u2019s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades\u2014and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown Uranus\u2019 upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades, with no clear explanation. Now, a team led by Imperial College London scientists has determined that unpredictable long-term changes in the solar wind \u2014the stream of particles and energy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199616","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}