{"id":19317,"date":"2016-07-12T23:51:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-shows-off-juno-spacecrafts-first-view-of-jupiter-and-its-moons-from-orbit\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T23:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:51:48","slug":"nasa-shows-off-juno-spacecrafts-first-view-of-jupiter-and-its-moons-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-shows-off-juno-spacecrafts-first-view-of-jupiter-and-its-moons-from-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA shows off Juno spacecraft\u2019s first view of Jupiter and its moons from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_259987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259987\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-259987\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160712-juno1-630x335.jpg\" alt=\"Jupiter and moons\" width=\"630\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160712-juno1-630x335.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160712-juno1-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160712-juno1-1240x659.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160712-juno1.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-259987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This view from JunoCam shows Jupiter at far left, with the moons Io, Europa and Ganymede in orbit from left to right. Click on the image for a larger version. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not the closest close-up of Jupiter, but it\u2019s the first view provided by NASA\u2019s Juno probe since it went into orbit around the giant planet on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>The image released today shows Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, as well as the moons Io, Europa and Ganymede, from a distance of 2.7 million miles. The picture was taken by Juno\u2019s visible-light camera at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, shortly after it was turned on in the wake of orbital insertion. At the time, Juno was on the outbound leg of its initial 53.5-day capture orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scene from JunoCam indicates it survived its first pass through&nbsp;Jupiter\u2019s extreme radiation environment without any degradation and is ready to take on Jupiter,\u201d Scott Bolton, mission principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in today\u2019s image advisory. \u201cWe can\u2019t wait to see the first view of Jupiter\u2019s poles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JunoCam will continue to capture images as it zooms through its first orbit, but the first high-resolution pictures of Jupiter won\u2019t be taken until Aug. 27, when Juno makes its next close encounter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Juno Approach Movie of Jupiter and the Galilean Moons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpsQimYhNkA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Juno\u2019s main mission is to study Jupiter\u2019s magnetic field as well as its internal composition and structure. Over the course of 20 months, its scientific instruments are expected to document the planet\u2019s aurora, assess the abundance of water and other chemicals in its all-obscuring cloud cover, and determine whether or not Jupiter has a solid core.<\/p>\n<p>The results could help scientists figure out in greater detail how the solar system was formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>JunoCam is not considered one of the mission\u2019s science instruments. Rather, the camera was added to the spacecraft\u2019s payload for the purposes of public engagement. It\u2019s expected to produce unprecedented closeups of Jupiter\u2019s poles and cloud tops from as close as 2,600 miles. Eventually, the Juno mission team will be taking requests for the camera\u2019s targets.<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter has been a frequent target for NASA spacecraft, ranging from Pioneer,&nbsp;Voyager and Galileo to the Hubble Space Telescope, Cassini and New Horizons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This view from JunoCam shows Jupiter at far left, with the moons Io, Europa and Ganymede in orbit from left to right. Click on the image for a larger version. (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS) It\u2019s not the closest close-up of Jupiter, but it\u2019s the first view provided by NASA\u2019s Juno probe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5098,1606,190],"class_list":["post-19317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juno-mission","tag-jupiter","tag-nasa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}