{"id":655461,"date":"2020-05-20T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655461"},"modified":"2020-05-20T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T11:10:00","slug":"swarm-probes-weakening-of-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=655461","title":{"rendered":"Swarm probes weakening of Earth\u2019s magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Development_of_the_South_Atlantic_Anomaly_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an area stretching from Africa to South America, Earth\u2019s magnetic field is gradually weakening. This strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites orbiting Earth. Scientists are using data from ESA\u2019s Swarm constellation to improve our understanding of this area known as the \u2018South Atlantic Anomaly.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Swarm\/Swarm_probes_weakening_of_Earth_s_magnetic_field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Swarm probes weakening of Earth\u2019s magnetic field<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an area stretching from Africa to South America, Earth\u2019s magnetic field is gradually weakening. This strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites orbiting Earth.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":655462,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655461","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/655462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}