{"id":121161,"date":"2021-04-02T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/europa-clipper-nasas-mission-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moon-europa-just-hit-a-significant-milestone"},"modified":"2021-04-02T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:23:50","slug":"europa-clipper-nasas-mission-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moon-europa-just-hit-a-significant-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/europa-clipper-nasas-mission-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moon-europa-just-hit-a-significant-milestone","title":{"rendered":"Europa Clipper \u2013 NASA\u2019s Mission to Search for Life on Jupiter\u2019s Moon Europa \u2013 Just Hit a Significant Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/europa-clipper-nasas-mission-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moon-europa-just-hit-a-significant-milestone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With an internal global ocean twice the size of Earth\u2019s oceans combined, Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa carries the potential for conditions suitable for life. But the frigid temperatures and the nonstop pummeling of the surface from Jupiter\u2019s radiation make it a tricky target to explore: Mission engineers and scientists must design a spacecraft hardy enough to withstand the radiation yet sensitive enough to gather the science needed to investigate Europa\u2019s environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Europa Clipper orbiter will swoop around Jupiter on an elliptical path, dipping close to the moon on each flyby to conduct detailed reconnaissance. The science includes gathering measurements of the internal ocean, mapping the surface composition and its geology, and hunting for plumes of water vapor that may be venting from the icy crust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an internal global ocean twice the size of Earth\u2019s oceans combined, Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa carries the potential for conditions suitable for life. But the frigid temperatures and the nonstop pummeling of the surface from Jupiter\u2019s radiation make it a tricky target to explore: Mission engineers and scientists must design a spacecraft hardy enough to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}