{"id":335746,"date":"2017-06-26T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170626093453.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-26T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T13:34:53","slug":"topsy-turvy-motion-creates-light-switch-effect-at-uranus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=335746","title":{"rendered":"Topsy-turvy motion creates light switch effect at Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, scientists have discovered. It&#8217;s &#8216;open&#8217; 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>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, scientists have discovered. It&#8217;s &#8216;open&#8217; in one orien&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335747,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746\/revisions\/335747"}],"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=335746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}