{"id":4039,"date":"2016-07-08T21:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2016-07-08T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T02:30:41","slug":"jupiters-an-odd-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/08\/jupiters-an-odd-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter&#8217;s an Odd Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we reach out to Jupiter via\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionjuno.swri.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Juno probe<\/a>, the big planet is reaching out to us, as <em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=08&amp;month=07&amp;year=2016\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, a series of narrow radio beams from Jupiter reached Earth &#8230; but they weren&#8217;t from NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft. They came from Jupiter itself. Natural radio lasers in Jupiter&#8217;s magnetosphere send shortwave signals into space and occasionally they sweep past Earth. &#8220;I picked them up in broad daylight,&#8221; says Thomas Ashcraft, who operates an amateur radio telescope in rural New Mexico.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spaceweather.com includes a link to an audio interpretation of the received beams, which I&#8217;m sure is quite significant to those familiar with the standard signal at 22.4 and 22.2 MHz, but doesn&#8217;t mean much to me. But I must say, natural radio lasers on\u00a0Jupiter &#8211; very cool.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d2xkkdgjnsfvb0.cloudfront.net\/Vault\/Thumb?VaultID=28&amp;Interlaced=1&amp;Mode=R&amp;ResX=750&amp;Quality=90&amp;t=1467752978\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionjuno.swri.edu\/media-gallery\/jupiter\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NASA, ESA, I. de Pater and M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley)<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we reach out to Jupiter via\u00a0the Juno probe, the big planet is reaching out to us, as Spaceweather.com reports: Yesterday, a series of narrow radio beams from Jupiter reached Earth &#8230; but they weren&#8217;t from NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft. They came from Jupiter itself. Natural radio lasers in Jupiter&#8217;s magnetosphere \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/08\/jupiters-an-odd-bird\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-4039","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\/4039","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=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}