{"id":675589,"date":"2020-12-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675589"},"modified":"2020-12-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T09:00:00","slug":"the-suns-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675589","title":{"rendered":"The Sun\u2019s mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/The_Sun_s_mysteries_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter mission will aim to solve many open questions in solar science:<br \/>\n-The Sun\u2019s surface is about 5\u00a0500 \u00b0C but the upper atmosphere \u2013 corona \u2013 is one million degrees. What causes this mysterious heating?<br \/>\n-The solar wind is a stream of charged particles emitted from the Sun. The particles reach speeds of up to 800 km\/s. What makes them so fast?<br \/>\n-The Sun\u2019s magnetic field drives the 11-year cycle of solar activity, but what drives the Sun\u2019s magnetic field? The Sun\u2019s polar regions are key to understanding the magnetic field, but no one has ever seen them up close. Solar Orbiter will take the first images of this enigmatic region.<br \/>-How does the Sun\u2019s magnetic field affect Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun transmits its energy across space, helping us to better understand how our local star influences our home planet in terms of space weather. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Solar_Orbiter\/Secrets_for_Solar_Orbiter_to_solve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Find out more about the Sun\u2019s mysteries that Solar Orbiter will aim to solve<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2020\/12\/The_Sun_s_mysteries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Sun\u2019s mysteries<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter mission will aim to solve many open questions in solar science: -The Sun\u2019s surface is about 5\u00a0500 \u00b0C but the upper atmosphere \u2013 corona \u2013 is one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675590,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675589","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=675589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/675590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}