{"id":2122,"date":"2025-10-13T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/swarm-reveals-growing-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:50:00","slug":"swarm-reveals-growing-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/swarm-reveals-growing-weak-spot-in-earths-magnetic-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth\u2019s magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/10\/south_atlantic_anomaly_2025_compared_to_2014\/26914927-1-eng-GB\/South_Atlantic_Anomaly_2025_compared_to_2014_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"South Atlantic Anomaly 2025 compared to 2014\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth\u2019s magnetic field over the South Atlantic \u2013 known as the South Atlantic Anomaly \u2013 has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth\u2019s magnetic field over the South Atlantic \u2013 known as the South Atlantic Anomaly \u2013 has expanded by an area nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}