{"id":257468,"date":"2010-01-31T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21100"},"modified":"2010-01-31T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:43:30","slug":"nasa-worried-about-solar-threat-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/257468","title":{"rendered":"NASA Worried About Solar Threat To Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/solar_flare-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"solar_flare\" title=\"solar_flare\" width=\"270\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21102\" \/>One of the alarmist predictions for 2012 concerns the supposed cyclical climax of solar flare activity (see the Larry Joseph section in the disinformation documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/2012dvd.com\">2012: Science or Superstition<\/a>). Although NASA felt moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/2009\/11\/nasa-wants-you-to-know-that-the-world-wont-end-in-2012\/\">create a web page to deny<\/a> this kind of story around the release date of Roland Emmerich&#8217;s 2012 disaster movie, apparently they are hedging their bets. Chris Hastings and Jonathan Leake report on a new NASA probe that could help scientists predict chaos-causing solar storms, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/science\/space\/article7009735.ece\">Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NASA is to embark on one of its most ambitious missions in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Following its launch in nine days\u2019 time, the US space agency\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will spend five years in orbit trying to discover the causes of extreme solar activity,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the alarmist predictions for 2012 concerns the supposed cyclical climax of solar flare activity (see the Larry Joseph section in the disinformation documentary 2012: Science or Superstition). Although NASA felt moved to create a web page to deny this kind of story around the release date of Roland Emmerich&#8217;s 2012 disaster movie, apparently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}