{"id":13469,"date":"2024-10-12T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:49:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:49:47","slug":"europa-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/12\/europa-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/interactive\/2024\/nasa-europa-clipper-launch-jupiter-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can an icy Jupiter moon sustain life? NASA\u2019s biggest space probe will investigate.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Story by Joel Achenbach, William Neff, Leslie Shapiro<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1158\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13470\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life. In an ambitious $5 billion mission decades in the making, NASA is poised to send a jumbo robotic probe called the Europa Clipper to see if the icy moon has the key characteristics of a habitable world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a huge deal,\u201d said Robert Pappalardo, the project scientist for the Europa Clipper at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA officials had hoped to launch the spacecraft Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. But Hurricane Milton \u2014 the eye of which passed directly over Cape Canaveral \u2014 put everything on hold. Friday night, NASA said the launch window will open Monday. It extends to Nov.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/6.as\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life beyond Earth is among the greatest unknowns in science. Finding the first confirmed example of alien life has been a goal of NASA for decades. The scientific community has narrowed its focus to a few enticing targets, and at or very near the top of the list is this strange moon that looks like nothing else in the solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/interactive\/2024\/nasa-europa-clipper-launch-jupiter-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Can an icy Jupiter moon sustain life? NASA\u2019s biggest space probe will investigate. Story by Joel Achenbach, William Neff, Leslie Shapiro Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}