{"id":182028,"date":"2015-04-10T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=182028"},"modified":"2015-05-20T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:46:08","slug":"journey-to-the-magnetosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/journey-to-the-magnetosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the magnetosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_182030\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-182030\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Estrategias_magnetoNASAKim-Shiflett-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The four satellites prior to lift-off: working together\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Kim Shiflett \/ NASA<\/span>The four satellites prior to lift-off: working together<span class=\"media-credits\">Kim Shiflett \/ NASA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>On March 12, 2015, the US space agency NASA launched its Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Hours after lifting off at Cape Canaveral, in Florida, the four identical satellites that make up the mission separated from the Atlas V rocket and entered Earth\u2019s orbit, where they will work together, flying in pyramid-like formation and taking electrical and magnetic measurements. The mission will study what happens in space when magnetic field lines release energy as they violently disconnect and reconnect. These reconnections disturb the Earth\u2019s protective shield\u2014called the magnetosphere\u2014and during solar flares allow the high-energy particles that stream from the sun to interfere with and even shut down modern technological systems like communications networks, GPS navigation, and power grids. \u201c[MMS] is going to actually fly in Earth\u2019s magnetosphere,\u201d explained Jeff Newmark, director of NASA\u2019s Heliophysics Division, according to the site Space.com. &#8220;We&#8217;re using this environment around the Earth as a natural laboratory. Rather than building one on Earth, we&#8217;re going to where magnetic reconnection actually occurs in space so we can understand it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four NASA&#8217;s satellites will take electrical and magnetic measurements","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[205,235],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-182028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-astronomy","tag-physics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182028"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=182028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}