{"id":31475,"date":"2020-12-10T19:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31475"},"modified":"2020-12-10T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T01:34:46","slug":"healing-cmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/10\/healing-cmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing CMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was some excitement about coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun hitting the earth and sparking northern lights. It was, apparently, a big fizzle, as <em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=11&amp;month=12&amp;year=2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceweather.com\/images2020\/07dec20\/c7_anim_teal.gif?resize=210%2C210&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/>Every CME brings with it some magnetic field from the sun. If that magnetic field points\u00a0<strong>south<\/strong>, it opens\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2003\/03dec_magneticcracks\">cracks in Earth&#8217;s magnetic field<\/a>, allowing solar wind to flow inside and fuel auroras. On the other hand, if the CME&#8217;s magnetic field points\u00a0<strong>north<\/strong>, it seals cracks in Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, blocking the solar wind and quenching storms.<\/p>\n<p>This CME brought a storm-killing north magnetic field. So, even though the velocity of the solar wind in the CME&#8217;s wake flirted with a high value of 600 km\/s, it was ineffective in causing geomagnetic storms and auroras.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learning something new every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night there was some excitement about coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun hitting the earth and sparking northern lights. It was, apparently, a big fizzle, as Spaceweather.com explains: Every CME brings with it some magnetic field from the sun. If that magnetic field points\u00a0south, it opens\u00a0cracks in Earth&#8217;s \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/10\/healing-cmes\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31476,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31475\/revisions\/31476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}