{"id":25685,"date":"2016-05-13T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/nasa-satellites-find-trigger-for-magnetic-explosions-near-earth-for-first-time"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:51:45","slug":"nasa-satellites-find-trigger-for-magnetic-explosions-near-earth-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/nasa-satellites-find-trigger-for-magnetic-explosions-near-earth-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"NASA satellites find trigger for magnetic explosions near Earth for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-satellites-find-trigger-for-magnetic-explosions-near-earth-for-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Explosive storms spawned by interactions between the magnetic fields of Earth and the sun can endanger satellites, spacecraft and astronauts in space, as well as power grids on Earth. Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/28784-dont-cross-the-streams-nasa-studying-magnetic-explosions-video.html\" target=\"_blank\">a fleet of NASA spacecraft<\/a> has for the first time directly witnessed the mysterious way in which these magnetic explosions occur.<\/p>\n<p>This work could help shed light on dangerous solar outbursts and help improve the design of advanced nuclear reactors, researchers said. The discovery was made using NASA\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/28792-nasa-satellite-quartet-magnetic-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\">Magnetospheric Multiscale mission<\/a> (or MMS for short), which launched four spacecraft into Earth\u2019s magnetosphere, the bubble of plasma controlled by the planet\u2019s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/28701-nasa-magnetospheric-multiscale-mission-pictures.html\" target=\"_blank\">Satellite quartet: NASA\u2019s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission in pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/13\/magnetic-storms-nasa-probes\/#Je3ED79UdkqT\">http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/13\/magnetic-storms-nasa-probes\/#Je3ED79UdkqT<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosive storms spawned by interactions between the magnetic fields of Earth and the sun can endanger satellites, spacecraft and astronauts in space, as well as power grids on Earth. Now, a fleet of NASA spacecraft has for the first time directly witnessed the mysterious way in which these magnetic explosions occur. This work could help [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/revisions\/50503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}