{"id":22590,"date":"2019-03-06T05:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T05:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22590"},"modified":"2019-03-06T05:57:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T05:57:18","slug":"a-february-without-sunpots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22590","title":{"rendered":"A February without Sunpots"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1903\/SunMaxMin_Friedman_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Where have all the sunspots gone? Last month the total number of spots that crossed our Sun was &#8230; zero. Well below of the long term monthly average, the Sun&#8217;s surface has become as unusually passive this solar minimum just like it did 11 years ago during the last solar minimum. Such passivity is not just a visual spectacle, it correlates with the Sun being slightly dimmer, with holes in the Sun&#8217;s corona being more stable, and with a reduced intensity in the outflowing solar wind. The reduced wind, in turn, cools and collapses Earth&#8217;s outer atmosphere (the thermosphere), causing reduced drag on many Earth-orbiting satellites. Pictured in inverted black &#038; white on the left, the Sun&#8217;s busy surface is shown near solar maximum in 2012, in contrast to the image on the right, which shows the Sun&#8217;s surface last August, already without spots (for a few days), as solar minimum was setting in. Effects of this unusually static solar minimum are being studied. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap190306.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where have all the sunspots gone? Last month the total number of spots that crossed our Sun was &#8230; zero. Well below of the long term monthly average, the Sun&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22590\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-22590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22591,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22590\/revisions\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}