{"id":179595,"date":"2023-12-31T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-nasa-spacecraft-just-had-a-close-encounter-with-a-volcanic-moon-see-the-stunning-first-image"},"modified":"2023-12-31T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T22:23:06","slug":"a-nasa-spacecraft-just-had-a-close-encounter-with-a-volcanic-moon-see-the-stunning-first-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-nasa-spacecraft-just-had-a-close-encounter-with-a-volcanic-moon-see-the-stunning-first-image","title":{"rendered":"A NASA Spacecraft Just Had A Close Encounter With A Volcanic Moon\u2014See The Stunning First Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nasa-spacecraft-just-had-a-close-encounter-with-a-volcanic-moon-see-the-stunning-first-image3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s spacecraft Juno just had a super-close encounter with the most volcanic world in the solar system\u2014but its stunning first image could be among its last after 56 orbits of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>On December 30, the bus-sized spacecraft\u2014orbiting Jupiter since 2016\u2014got very close to Io, the giant moon of Jupiter. It reached a mere 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the moon\u2019s surface. However, the spacecraft\u2019s camera has suffered radiation damage and may not last much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The first image to come back from this, the closest pass since NASA\u2019s Galileo probe imaged the volcanic moon in October 2001, was published on social media by NASA on December 31. \u201cThe JunoCam instrument aboard our Juno Mission acquired six images of Jupiter\u2019s moon Io during its close encounter today,\u201d read the tweet. \u201cThis black-and-white view was taken at an altitude of about 1,500 miles (2,500 kilometers).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s spacecraft Juno just had a super-close encounter with the most volcanic world in the solar system\u2014but its stunning first image could be among its last after 56 orbits of Jupiter. On December 30, the bus-sized spacecraft\u2014orbiting Jupiter since 2016\u2014got very close to Io, the giant moon of Jupiter. It reached a mere 930 miles [\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-179595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179595","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=179595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}