{"id":305378,"date":"2017-04-21T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=243773c419845a49017d33df921060bb"},"modified":"2017-04-21T04:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:42:00","slug":"meet-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=305378","title":{"rendered":"Meet Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/04\/meet_steve\/16910617-1-eng-GB\/Meet_Steve_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to scientists, citizen scientists, ground-based imagers and ESA\u2019s magnetic field Swarm mission, this purple streak of light in the night sky has been discovered. Originally thought to be a \u2018proton arc\u2019, this strange feature has been called Steve. While there is still a lot to learn about Steve, the electric field instrument carried on the Swarm mission has measured it. Flying through Steve, the temperature 300 km above Earth\u2019s surface jumped by 3000\u00b0C and the data revealed a 25 km-wide ribbon of gas flowing westward at about 6 km\/s compared to a speed of about 10 m\/s either side of the ribbon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Swarm\/When_Swarm_met_Steve\" >When Swarm met Steve<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/04\/meet_steve\/16910617-1-eng-GB\/Meet_Steve_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to scientists, citizen scientists, ground-based imagers and ESA&rsquo;s magnetic field Swarm mission, this purple streak of light in the night sky has been discovered. Originally thought to be a &lsquo;proton arc&rsquo;, this strange feature has been called Steve. While there is still a lot to learn about Steve, the electric field instrument carried on the Swarm mission has measured it. Flying through Steve, the temperature 300 km above Earth&rsquo;s surface jumped by 3000&deg;C and the data revealed a 25 km-wide ribbon of gas flowing westward at about 6 km\/s compared to a speed of about 10 m\/s either side of the ribbon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead full story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Swarm\/When_Swarm_met_Steve\" target=\"_blank\">When Swarm met Steve<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305378","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306834,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305378\/revisions\/306834"}],"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=305378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}