{"id":295402,"date":"2017-03-31T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a9d5ccda39fea5c30cc324d9899fb212"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:29:34","slug":"nasa-observations-reshape-basic-plasma-wave-physics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=295402","title":{"rendered":"NASA observations reshape basic plasma wave physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA&#8217;s Magnetospheric Multiscale\u2014or MMS\u2014mission was launched, the scientists knew it would answer questions fundamental to the nature of our universe\u2014and MMS hasn&#8217;t disappointed. A new finding, presented in a paper in Nature Communications, provides observational proof of a 50-year-old theory and reshapes the basic understanding of a type of wave in space known as a kinetic Alfv\u00e9n wave. The results, which reveal unexpected, small-scale complexities in the wave, are also applicable to nuclear fusion techniques, which rely on minimizing the existence of such waves inside the equipment to trap heat efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA&#8217;s Magnetospheric Multiscale&mdash;or MMS&mdash;mission was launched, the scientists knew it would answer questions fundamental to the nature of our universe&mdash;and MMS hasn&#8217;t disappointed. A new finding, presented in a paper in Nature Communications, provides observational proof of a 50-year-old theory and reshapes the basic understanding of a type of wave in space known as a kinetic Alfv&eacute;n wave. The results, which reveal unexpected, small-scale complexities in the wave, are also applicable to nuclear fusion techniques, which rely on minimizing the existence of such waves inside the equipment to trap heat efficiently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295403,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295402\/revisions\/295403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}