{"id":317796,"date":"2017-05-18T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2775a3b48f98de9a61a874161a433e8b"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:54:33","slug":"nasa-mission-uncovers-a-dance-of-electrons-in-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=317796","title":{"rendered":"NASA mission uncovers a dance of electrons in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t see them, but swarms of electrons are buzzing through the magnetic environment\u2014the magnetosphere\u2014around Earth. The electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance dictated by the magnetic and electric fields. When they penetrate into the magnetosphere close enough to Earth, the high-energy electrons can damage satellites in orbit and trigger auroras. Scientists with NASA&#8217;s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission study the electrons&#8217; dynamics to better understand their behavior. A new study, published in Journal of Geophysical Research revealed a bizarre new type of motion exhibited by these electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t see them, but swarms of electrons are buzzing through the magnetic environment&mdash;the magnetosphere&mdash;around Earth. The electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance dictated by the magnetic and electric fields. When they penetrate into the magnetosphere close enough to Earth, the high-energy electrons can damage satellites in orbit and trigger auroras. Scientists with NASA&#8217;s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission study the electrons&#8217; dynamics to better understand their behavior. A new study, published in Journal of Geophysical Research revealed a bizarre new type of motion exhibited by these electrons.<\/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-317796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317796","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=317796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317797,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317796\/revisions\/317797"}],"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=317796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}