{"id":10951,"date":"2020-06-08T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/revisando-archivos-se-descubre-urano-plasmoide-22-000-veces-grande-que-tierra"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T09:20:42","slug":"revisando-archivos-se-descubre-en-urano-un-plasmoide-22-000-veces-mas-grande-que-la-tierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/revisando-archivos-se-descubre-en-urano-un-plasmoide-22-000-veces-mas-grande-que-la-tierra\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing files, a plasmoid 22,000 times larger than Earth is discovered on Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/519d57\/d6d21c641a574e6c968745629cceb6f6\/1024_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Revisando archivos se descubre en Urano un plasmoide 22 000 veces m\u00e1s grande que la Tierra\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>Our image of Uranus has not advanced substantially beyond being the featureless blue ball captured by Voyager 2&#039;s instruments in 1986.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 1 --><\/p>\n<p>But last year, while reviewing NASA archives, two planetary scientists noticed something that previous analyzes had missed: <strong>a glitch in Uranus&#039;s magnetic field as the spacecraft passed through a type of magnetic bubble<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 2 --><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1029\/2019GL083909\">new results<\/a>, which appeared last summer in <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>, reveals to us a much more fascinating Uranus than we thought. The flight of Voyager 2 was only able to detect this structure during <strong>60 seconds of the 45 hours of data collection<\/strong>. It appeared as a very fast signal up and down in the magnetometer data.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 3 --><\/p>\n<h2>Magnetic distortions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Gina DiBraccio<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Gershman<\/strong>, from NASA&#039;s Goddard Space Flight Center, are two of these researchers. Motivated by the community&#039;s growing interest in the outermost planets, they spent hours manually processing thirty years&#039; worth of data in a new way. And then they saw the plasmoid.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 4 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-asset-video article-asset-large\">\n<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<div class=\"base-asset-video\">\n   <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zlnM9NlP42g\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>   <\/iframe>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A plasmoid is a coherent plasma structure confined by a magnetic field. Plasmoids have been proposed as a natural explanation for globular lightning, magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere, and other objects in comet tails, in the wind, in the solar atmosphere, or in the heliospheric current. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 5 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/los-cuerpos-celestes-femeninos-de-urano\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/a6856c\/lossy-page1-800px-uranus_as_seen_by_nasa-s_voyager_2.tif\/375_142.jpg\" alt=\"Los cuerpos celestes femeninos de Urano\"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/los-cuerpos-celestes-femeninos-de-urano\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/los-cuerpos-celestes-femeninos-de-urano\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">The female celestial bodies of Uranus<\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scientists believe that a planet&#039;s magnetic fields can protect it, preventing the solar wind from destroying the atmosphere. However, these fields can also generate breakout options. This leads scientists to pay special attention to a planet&#039;s magnetic fields to understand how its atmosphere behaves. <strong>The magnetic burp that Voyager 2 went through was the first for Uranus<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 6 --><\/p>\n<p>It is quite similar to those observed on Saturn or Jupiter, but with a greater mass: this plasmoid formed a cylinder approximately 22,000 times larger than Earth: <strong>204,000 kilometers long and 400,000 kilometers wide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 7 --><\/p>\n<div class=\"desvio-container\">\n<div class=\"desvio\">\n<div class=\"desvio-figure js-desvio-figure\">\n   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/el-planeta-que-se-llamo-jorge-durante-40-anos\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.blogs.es\/faa875\/william_herschel_large\/375_142.jpg\" alt=\"El planeta que se llam\u00f3 Jorge durante 40 a\u00f1os\"><br \/>\n   <\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"desvio-summary\">\n<div class=\"desvio-taxonomy js-desvio-taxonomy\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/el-planeta-que-se-llamo-jorge-durante-40-anos\" class=\"desvio-taxonomy-anchor\">In Xataka Science<\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/el-planeta-que-se-llamo-jorge-durante-40-anos\" class=\"desvio-title js-desvio-title\">The planet that was called Jorge for 40 years<\/a>\n  <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Scientists are particularly interested in studying plasmoids because these structures can extract charged particles from a planet&#039;s atmosphere and hurl them into space. If you change the atmosphere of a planet, you change the planet itself. <strong>More such discoveries could remain in the archives, awaiting further analysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- BREAK 8 --><\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <br \/> The news<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/astronomia\/revisando-archivos-se-descubre-urano-plasmoide-22-000-veces-grande-que-tierra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=08_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       <em> Reviewing files, a plasmoid 22,000 times larger than Earth is discovered on Uranus <\/em><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      was originally published in<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=08_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       <strong> Xataka Science <\/strong><br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n            by <a\n       href=\"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/autor\/sergio-parra?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=08_Jun_2020\"><br \/>\n       Sergio Parra<br \/>\n      <\/a><br \/>\n      . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/xatakaciencia\/~4\/ItVploNTvnE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Our image of Uranus has not advanced substantially beyond being the featureless blue ball captured by Voyager 2&#039;s instruments in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>But last year, while reviewing NASA files, two ci...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal-3"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11340,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions\/11340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}