{"id":228435,"date":"2026-01-06T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mysterious-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field-has-grown-nearly-half-the-size-of-europe"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:14","slug":"a-mysterious-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field-has-grown-nearly-half-the-size-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-mysterious-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field-has-grown-nearly-half-the-size-of-europe","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Weak Spot in Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field Has Grown Nearly Half the Size of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-mysterious-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field-has-grown-nearly-half-the-size-of-europe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth\u2019s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven by dynamic processes deep within the planet\u2019s core. Drawing on 11 years of magnetic field data collected by the European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm satellite constellation, resea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth\u2019s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven by dynamic processes deep within the planet\u2019s core. Drawing on 11 years of magnetic field data collected by the European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm satellite constellation, resea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228435","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=228435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}