{"id":84240,"date":"2018-11-01T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/theres-a-region-over-south-america-where-nasa-shuts-down-its-satellites"},"modified":"2018-11-01T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T22:07:01","slug":"theres-a-region-over-south-america-where-nasa-shuts-down-its-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/theres-a-region-over-south-america-where-nasa-shuts-down-its-satellites","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a region over South America where NASA shuts down its satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-region-over-south-america-where-nasa-shuts-down-its-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the South Atlantic Anomaly.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The closest radiation belt to Earth roams above South America. It is called the South Atlantic Anomaly and gives off high levels of <a href=http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-much-radiation-youre-exposed-to-in-everyday-life-2016-6 > radiation<\/a> that has been known to destroy satellites.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Follow Tech Insider:<\/strong><a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/techinsider >On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-south-atlantic-anomaly-south-america-nasa-satellite-2017-1\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-south-atlantic-anomaly-...2017&#45;1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s called the South Atlantic Anomaly. The closest radiation belt to Earth roams above South America. It is called the South Atlantic Anomaly and gives off high levels of radiation that has been known to destroy satellites. Follow Tech Insider:On Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84240","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84293,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84240\/revisions\/84293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}