{"id":190774,"date":"2024-06-07T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/nasas-juno-provides-high-definition-views-of-europas-icy-shell"},"modified":"2024-06-07T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T15:22:40","slug":"nasas-juno-provides-high-definition-views-of-europas-icy-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/nasas-juno-provides-high-definition-views-of-europas-icy-shell","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Juno provides High-Definition views of Europa\u2019s Icy Shell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-juno-provides-high-definition-views-of-europas-icy-shell2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Images from the JunoCam visible-light camera aboard NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft supports the theory that the icy crust at the north and south poles of Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa is not where it used to be. Another high-resolution picture of the icy moon, by the spacecraft\u2019s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), reveals signs of possible plume activity and an area of ice shell disruption where brine may have recently bubbled to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The JunoCam results recently appeared in the Planetary Science Journal and the SRU results in the journal JGR Planets.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 29, 2022, Juno made its closest flyby of Europa, coming within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the moon\u2019s frozen surface. The four pictures taken by JunoCam and one by the SRU are the first high-resolution images of Europa since Galileo\u2019s last flyby in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images from the JunoCam visible-light camera aboard NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft supports the theory that the icy crust at the north and south poles of Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa is not where it used to be. Another high-resolution picture of the icy moon, by the spacecraft\u2019s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU), reveals signs of possible plume activity and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190774","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}