{"id":147239,"date":"2022-09-29T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasa-unveils-first-image-of-jupiter-moon-europa-after-juno-spacecraft-completes-flyby"},"modified":"2022-09-29T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T04:24:08","slug":"nasa-unveils-first-image-of-jupiter-moon-europa-after-juno-spacecraft-completes-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasa-unveils-first-image-of-jupiter-moon-europa-after-juno-spacecraft-completes-flyby","title":{"rendered":"NASA Unveils First Image of Jupiter Moon Europa After Juno Spacecraft Completes Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-unveils-first-image-of-jupiter-moon-europa-after-juno-spacecraft-completes-flyby2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed on Thursday one of the closest-ever looks at an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter. That moon, named Europa, is widely considered <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/nasa-plans-to-search-for-life-on-jupiters-europa\/982CB124-9DD0-4015-829E-9502C968C752.html?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the most promising place to search for life<\/a> beyond Earth, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft buzzed by <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/moons\/jupiter-moons\/europa\/in-depth\" rel=\"noopener noreferer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Europa, Jupiter\u2019s fourth-largest moon<\/a>, on Thursday, coming within 220 miles of its surface around 5:36 a.m. ET. It is the first time the agency has glimpsed the moon that closely since its Galileo orbiter mission flew at a similar distance in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed on Thursday one of the closest-ever looks at an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter. That moon, named Europa, is widely considered the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth, according to the agency. NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft buzzed by Europa, Jupiter\u2019s fourth-largest moon, on Thursday, coming within 220 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147239","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=147239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}