{"id":222202,"date":"2025-09-20T04:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/the-solar-wind-is-hiding-strange-particles-that-could-rewrite-space-weather"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:25:58","slug":"the-solar-wind-is-hiding-strange-particles-that-could-rewrite-space-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/the-solar-wind-is-hiding-strange-particles-that-could-rewrite-space-weather","title":{"rendered":"The Solar Wind Is Hiding Strange Particles That Could Rewrite Space Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-solar-wind-is-hiding-strange-particles-that-could-rewrite-space-weather.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the Southwest Research Institute has delivered the first observational evidence from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission of pickup ions (PUIs) and their related wave activity in the solar wind near Earth. NASA launched the MMS mission in 2015, deploying four spacecraft to study Earth\u2019s magnetosphere, the magnetic field that protects the planet from harmful solar and cosmic radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Formation and behavior of PUIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data may challenge and reshape current models of solar wind evolution. A recent study led by Dr. Michael Starkey of the Southwest Research Institute has delivered the first observational evidence from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission of pickup ions (PUIs) and their related wave activity in the solar wind near Earth. NASA launched the MMS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222202","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=222202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}