{"id":11198,"date":"2015-07-17T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:33:53","slug":"discovery-of-zebra-stripes-in-space-by-yuri-shprits-and-chris-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11198","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of &#8220;zebra stripes&#8221; in space by Yuri Shprits and Chris Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11199 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid.jpg\" alt=\"Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid.jpg 640w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Magnetosphere+courtesy+NASA_mid-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> UCLA researcher Yuri Shprits, along with Prof. Chris Russell have observed the structure of plasma waves in the equatorial regions of near-Earth space. The waves, which have until now only been observed as noise, have a highly structured pattern reminiscent of a zebra pattern. The discovery is highly significant for satellites and humans in space, which can be harmed by the high-energy particles.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full press release, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/releases\/scientists-discovery-of-zebra-stripes-in-space-resolves-a-half-century-mystery\">UCLA Newsroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCLA researcher Yuri Shprits, along with Prof. Chris Russell have observed the structure of plasma waves in the equatorial regions of near-Earth space. The waves, which have until now only been observed as noise, have a highly structured pattern reminiscent of a zebra pattern. The discovery is highly significant for satellites and humans in space, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=11198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Discovery of &#8220;zebra stripes&#8221; in space by Yuri Shprits and Chris Russell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[409,407,408],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chris-russell","tag-plasma","tag-zebra-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11200,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}