{"id":335619,"date":"2017-06-26T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b3bd26174cee3b823183ea39a6949555"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:46:20","slug":"topsy-turvy-motion-creates-light-switch-effect-at-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=335619","title":{"rendered":"Topsy-turvy motion creates light switch effect at Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 years after Voyager 2 sped past Uranus, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using the spacecraft&#8217;s data to learn more about the icy planet. Their new study suggests that Uranus&#8217; magnetosphere, the region defined by the planet&#8217;s magnetic field and the material trapped inside it, gets flipped on and off like a light switch every day as it rotates along with the planet. It&#8217;s &#8220;open&#8221; in one orientation, allowing solar wind to flow into the magnetosphere; it later closes, forming a shield against the solar wind and deflecting it away from the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 years after Voyager 2 sped past Uranus, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using the spacecraft&#8217;s data to learn more about the icy planet. Their new study suggests that Uranus&#8217; magnetosphere, the region defined by the planet&#8217;s&#8230;<\/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-335619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335619","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=335619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335620,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335619\/revisions\/335620"}],"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=335619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}