{"id":193806,"date":"2021-03-03T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T19:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:15:30","slug":"space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/space-hurricane-spotted-above-earth-for-the-first-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Space hurricane\u2019 spotted above Earth for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#\u2018Space hurricane\u2019 spotted above Earth for the first time ever<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A first-ever \u201cspace hurricane\u201d was spotted whirling above the Earth, scientists said.<\/p>\n<p>The 600-mile-wide mass of plasma occurred several hundreds of miles above the North Pole, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-21459-y\">according to a study\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so to prove this with such a striking observation is incredible,\u201d said Mike Lockwood, a space scientist at the University of Reading and co-author of the study, in a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/releases\/PR854520.aspx\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle was captured by satellites in August 2014, but only recently uncovered during research led by scientists from Shandong University in China.<\/p>\n<p>The space hurricane \u201crained\u201d electrons instead of water, had multiple spiral arms and lasted eight hours before gradually fizzing, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTropical storms are associated with huge amounts of energy, and these space hurricanes must be created by unusually large and rapid transfer of solar wind energy and charged particles into the Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere,\u201d Lockwood said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Schematic of the space hurricane and its formation mechanism\" class=\"wp-image-17462728 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Schematic of the space hurricane and its formation mechanism<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">University of Reading\/Nature Com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The discovery of the \u201cspace hurricane\u201d during a period of low geometric activity suggests that they may be a common phenomenon, Lockwood said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlasma and magnetic fields in the atmosphere of planets exist throughout the universe, so the findings suggest space hurricanes should be a widespread phenomena,\u201d he said.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The 600-mile-wide mass of plasma occurred several hundreds of miles above the North Pole, according to a study\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Nature Communications. \u201cUntil now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed, so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/space-hurricane-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[95984,71640,5019],"class_list":["post-193806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-3-21","tag-hurricanes","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}