{"id":54847,"date":"2012-07-13T13:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=54847"},"modified":"2012-07-13T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T11:03:06","slug":"solar-flare-headed-for-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/54847-solar-flare-headed-for-earth.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar flare headed for Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A solar flare was headed for Earth but would only cause slight communication disturbances, the SA National Space Agency (Sansa) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Spokeswoman Catherine Webster said the massive ejection of energy from the sun would likely impact Earth&#8217;s magnetic field late on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The effects of a coronal mass ejection will not harm humans and other life forms on Earth, as we are protected by the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can cause disturbances to our communication systems like global positioning systems, radio communications, cellphones and DSTV (satellite television).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The space agency expected only minor disturbances at this stage, which could last the whole weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It would continue to monitor the flare&#8217;s impact.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/32080-what-went-wrong-with-sumbandilasat.html\" target=\"_blank\">What went wrong with SumbandilaSat?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/45367-solar-storms-and-communications-problems.html\" target=\"_blank\">Solar storms and communications problems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SA National Space Agency say solar flare may hamper communication systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":45373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,13385,13383,759],"class_list":["post-54847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-coronal-mass-ejection","tag-sa-national-space-agency","tag-solar-flare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}