{"id":77705,"date":"2018-04-10T23:03:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T06:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-esa-just-discovered-a-second-magnetic-field-surrounding-our-planet"},"modified":"2018-04-10T23:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T06:03:17","slug":"the-esa-just-discovered-a-second-magnetic-field-surrounding-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-esa-just-discovered-a-second-magnetic-field-surrounding-our-planet","title":{"rendered":"The ESA Just Discovered a Second Magnetic Field Surrounding Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-esa-just-discovered-a-second-magnetic-field-surrounding-our-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trio of satellites studying our planet\u2019s magnetic field have shown details of the steady swell of a magnetic field produced by the ocean\u2019s tides.<\/p>\n<p>Four years of data collected by the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Swarm\/Swarm_tracks_elusive_ocean_magnetism\">Swarm mission<\/a> have contributed to the mapping of this \u2018other\u2019 magnetic field, one that could help us build better models around global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Nils Olsen from the Technical University of Denmark presented the surprising results at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egu2018.eu\/\">European Geosciences Union meeting<\/a> in Vienna, explaining how his team of researchers managed to detail such a faint signature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/esa-swarm-satellite-map-ocean-tides-magnetic-field\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/esa-swarm-satellite-map-ocean-tides-magnetic-field<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of satellites studying our planet\u2019s magnetic field have shown details of the steady swell of a magnetic field produced by the ocean\u2019s tides. Four years of data collected by the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Swarm mission have contributed to the mapping of this \u2018other\u2019 magnetic field, one that could help us build better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77705","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=77705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}