{"id":2289,"date":"2025-12-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/swarm-detects-rare-proton-spike-during-solar-storm\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:00:00","slug":"swarm-detects-rare-proton-spike-during-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/swarm-detects-rare-proton-spike-during-solar-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/12\/high-energy_protons_during_solar_storm_over_the_north_pole\/27018286-3-eng-GB\/High-energy_protons_during_solar_storm_over_the_North_Pole_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"High-energy protons during solar storm over the North Pole\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth\u2019s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth\u2019s magnetic field, but with its \u2018star tracker\u2019 positioning instruments \u2013 a first for the Swarm mission.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth\u2019s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth\u2019s magnetic field, but with its \u2018star tracker\u2019 positioning instruments \u2013 a first for the Swarm mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","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\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}