{"id":27809,"date":"2016-07-13T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pictures-since-arriving-at-jupiter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:40:26","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pictures-since-arriving-at-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pictures-since-arriving-at-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft sends first pictures since arriving at Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pictures-since-arriving-at-jupiter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great stuff \u2014 and far greater still to come!<\/p>\n<p>These optimal low radiation paths in, around, and thru Jupiter\u2019s seething radioactive local space will be absolutely priceless when actual human beings get out there, I\u2019d imagine.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><\/strong><strong>PASADENA, Calif.<\/strong> \u2014 A NASA spacecraft has sent back the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-scientists-engineers-thrilled-with-jupiter-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\">first pictures since arriving at Jupiter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An image released Tuesday shows Jupiter surrounded by three of its four largest moons. The picture was taken on Saturday when the Juno spacecraft was circling 3 million miles away. Even at that distance, Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot \u2014 a centuries-old atmospheric storm \u2014 was visible.<\/p>\n<p>Despite fears of radiation damage or a possibly crippling high-speed impact with debris in Jupiter\u2019s tenuous ring, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jupiter-bound-probe-set-for-critical-rocket-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Juno probe<\/a> safely braked into orbit around the giant planet last week, firing its main engine for 35 tense minutes to slow down enough to be captured in the planned polar orbit, elated mission managers said last Tuesday, CBS News\u2019 William Harwood reported.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pictures-since-arriving-at-jupiter\/\">http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-spacecraft-sends-first-pict...t-jupiter\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great stuff \u2014 and far greater still to come! These optimal low radiation paths in, around, and thru Jupiter\u2019s seething radioactive local space will be absolutely priceless when actual human beings get out there, I\u2019d imagine. PASADENA, Calif. \u2014 A NASA spacecraft has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter. An image released [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66940,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27809\/revisions\/66940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}