{"id":787460,"date":"2024-08-19T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787460"},"modified":"2024-08-19T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:37:50","slug":"why-juice-is-coming-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787460","title":{"rendered":"Why Juice is coming back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19\u201320 August 2024, to complete the world&#8217;s first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon and then Earth itself, \u2018braking\u2019 the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on it&#8217;s way to Jupiter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter is on average \u2018just\u2019 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice&#8217;s journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Juice is coming back to Earth\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8jkXMompss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/08\/Why_Juice_is_coming_back_to_Earth?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19\u201320 August 2024, to complete the world&#8217;s first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787460","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=787460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}