{"id":205905,"date":"2025-02-08T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasas-europa-clipper-captures-first-starfield-images-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2025-02-08T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T15:25:05","slug":"nasas-europa-clipper-captures-first-starfield-images-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasas-europa-clipper-captures-first-starfield-images-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper Captures First Starfield Images From Deep Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-europa-clipper-captures-first-starfield-images-from-deep-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter\u2019s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments remain dormant for now, its star trackers are actively working, snapping images of distant stars to help orient the spacecraft. These starfield images, which include the constellation Corvus, are crucial for navigation and ensuring the spacecraft can correctly align its antennas and instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter\u2019s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments remain dormant for now, its star trackers are actively working, snapping images of distant stars to help orient the spacecraft. These starfield images, which include the constellation Corvus, are crucial for navigation and [\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-205905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205905","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=205905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}