{"id":8080,"date":"2011-03-04T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8080"},"modified":"2011-03-04T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T08:00:39","slug":"scientists-find-cure-for-sunspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8080","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Cure for Sunspots!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/sunearth\/news\/solar-cycle23.html\">Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Spotless Sun<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, sorry.  Did I overstate the findings in the title?  There&#8217;s a better model, and we have a better understanding of the issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years, solar physicists have recognized the importance of the sun&#8217;s &#8220;Great Conveyor Belt.&#8221; A vast system of plasma currents called \u2018meridional flows\u2019 (akin to ocean currents on Earth) travel along the sun&#8217;s surface, plunge inward around the poles, and pop up again near the sun&#8217;s equator. These looping currents play a key role in the 11-year solar cycle. When sunspots begin to decay, surface currents sweep up their magnetic remains and pull them down inside the star; 300,000 km below the surface, the sun\u2019s magnetic dynamo amplifies the decaying magnetic fields. Re-animated sunspots become buoyant and bob up to the surface like a cork in water\u2014voila! A new solar cycle is born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers Crack the Mystery of the Spotless Sun Oh, sorry. Did I overstate the findings in the title? There&#8217;s a better model, and we have a better understanding of the issue. For years, solar physicists have recognized the importance of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}