{"id":217970,"date":"2013-10-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/earth-from-juno"},"modified":"2013-10-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T16:00:00","slug":"earth-from-juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=217970","title":{"rendered":"Earth from Juno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 9, Juno flew by Earth using the home planet&#8217;s gravity to get a boost needed to reach Jupiter. The JunoCam caught this image of Earth, and other instruments were tested to ensure they work as designed during a close planetary encounter.<br \/>\nThe Juno spacecraft was launched from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 5, 2011. Juno\u2019s rocket, the Atlas 551, was only capable of giving Juno enough energy or speed to reach the asteroid belt, at which point the Sun\u2019s gravity pulled Juno back toward the inner solar system. The Earth flyby gravity assist increases the spacecraft\u2019s speed to put it on course for arrival at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Malin Space Science Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 9, Juno flew by Earth using the home planet&#8217;s gravity to get a boost needed to reach Jupiter. The JunoCam caught this image of Earth, and other instruments were tested to ensure they work as designed during a close planetary encounter.<br \/>\nThe Juno spacecraft was launched from NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 5, 2011. Juno\u2019s rocket, the Atlas 551, was only capable of giving Juno enough energy or speed to reach the asteroid belt, at which point the Sun\u2019s gravity pulled Juno back toward the inner solar system. The Earth flyby gravity assist increases the spacecraft\u2019s speed to put it on course for arrival at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.<br \/>\nImage credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Malin Space Science Systems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}