{"id":194876,"date":"2024-08-21T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/juice-rerouted-to-venus-in-worlds-first-lunar-earth-flyby"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T16:26:50","slug":"juice-rerouted-to-venus-in-worlds-first-lunar-earth-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/juice-rerouted-to-venus-in-worlds-first-lunar-earth-flyby","title":{"rendered":"Juice rerouted to Venus in world\u2019s first lunar-Earth flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZoodtR-46Ms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>The closest approach to the Moon was at 23:15 CEST (21:15 UTC) on 19 August, guiding Juice towards a closest approach to Earth just over 24 hours later at 23:56 CEST (21:56 UTC) on 20 August.<\/p>\n<p>As Juice flew just 6,840 km above Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean, it snapped a series of images with its onboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2023\/05\/A_guide_to_Juice_s_monitoring_cameras\">monitoring cameras<\/a>, and collected scientific data with eight of its ten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2022\/12\/Juice_s_science_instruments\">instruments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner Solar System. The closest approach to the Moon was at 23:15 CEST (21:15 UTC) on 19 August, guiding Juice towards a closest approach to Earth [\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-194876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194876","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=194876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}