{"id":95950,"date":"2019-09-08T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/making-sense-of-saturns-impossible-rotation"},"modified":"2019-09-08T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T23:04:27","slug":"making-sense-of-saturns-impossible-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/making-sense-of-saturns-impossible-rotation","title":{"rendered":"Making sense of Saturn\u2019s impossible rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-sense-of-saturns-impossible-rotation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Saturn may be doing a little electromagnetic shimmy and twist which has been throwing off attempts by scientists to determine how long it takes for the planet to rotate on its axis, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Discovering the length of a day on any planet seems like a straightforward task: Find some feature on the planet and clock it as it rotates around once. Or, if it\u2019s a gas giant like Jupiter, which has no solid surface features, scientists can listen for periodic modulations in the intensity of radio signals created within the planet\u2019s rotating magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Saturn, which for decades has defied attempts to pin down out its exact rotation period. Now a new study in AGU\u2019s <i><i>Journal of Geophysical Research<\/i>: Space Physics<\/i> may have finally unveiled the gas giant\u2019s trick for hiding its rotation, and provide the key to giving up its secret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn may be doing a little electromagnetic shimmy and twist which has been throwing off attempts by scientists to determine how long it takes for the planet to rotate on its axis, according to a new study. Discovering the length of a day on any planet seems like a straightforward task: Find some feature on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95950","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=95950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}