{"id":356635,"date":"2017-08-09T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=35e1b4e7a796c6757f3ef41eb6e0f846"},"modified":"2017-08-09T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:16:44","slug":"chaotic-magnetic-field-lines-may-answer-the-coronal-heating-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=356635","title":{"rendered":"Chaotic magnetic field lines may answer the coronal heating problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is known that the sun&#8217;s corona\u2014the outermost layer of the sun&#8217;s atmosphere\u2014is roughly 100 times hotter than its photosphere\u2014the sun&#8217;s visible layer. The reason for this mysterious heating of the solar coronal plasma, however, is not yet entirely understood. A research team in India has developed a set of numerical computations to shed light on this phenomenon, and present this week in Physics of Plasmas, analysis examining the role of chaotic magnetic fields in potential heating mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is known that the sun&#8217;s corona&mdash;the outermost layer of the sun&#8217;s atmosphere&mdash;is roughly 100 times hotter than its photosphere&mdash;the sun&#8217;s visible layer. The reason for this mysterious heating of the solar coronal plasma, however, is not yet entirely understood. A research team in India has developed a set of numerical computations to shed light on this phenomenon, and present this week in Physics of Plasmas, analysis examining the role of chaotic magnetic fields in potential heating mechanisms.<\/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-356635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356635","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=356635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356636,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356635\/revisions\/356636"}],"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=356635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}