{"id":5912,"date":"2022-12-15T03:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:09:12","slug":"what-is-aeronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-aeronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Aeronomy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Aeronomy:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The term \u201caeronomy,\u201d coined and introduced about 60 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>It refers to the scientific study of the upper atmospheric regions of the Earth and other solar system bodies.<\/li>\n<li>It includes the distribution of temperature, density, and chemical constituents, and the chemical reactions that occur.<\/li>\n<li>It also includes the studies of aurora, airglow, the ionosphere, Van Allen radiation belts, cosmic rays, and radiative and photochemical phenomena.<\/li>\n<li>It covers the chemistry, dynamics and energy balance of both neutral and charged particles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What are Van Allen Radiation Belts?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, which mostly originate from the solar wind and are captured and held around a planet by that planet\u2019s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1883322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aeronomy is the scientific study of upper atmospheric regions of the Earth &#038; other solar system bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}