{"id":145114,"date":"2025-11-21T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/145114\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:55:09","slug":"europa-clipper-captures-uranus-with-star-tracker-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/145114\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa Clipper Captures Uranus With Star Tracker Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield \u2014 and the planet Uranus \u2014 on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/en-route-to-jupiter-nasas-europa-clipper-captures-images-of-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stellar reference units<\/a>. These star-tracking cameras are used for maintaining spacecraft orientation. Within the camera\u2019s field of view \u2014 representing 0.1% of the full sky around the spacecraft \u2014 Uranus is visible as a larger dot near the left side of the image.<\/p>\n<p>At the time the images were taken, Europa Clipper was about 2 billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Uranus. The spacecraft is currently en route to the Jupiter system to study the icy moon Europa.<\/p>\n<p>Europa Clipper launched in October 2024 and will arrive at the Jupiter system in 2030 to conduct about 50 flybys of Europa. The mission\u2019s main science goal is to determine whether there are places below Europa\u2019s surface that could support life. The mission\u2019s three main science objectives are to determine the thickness of the moon\u2019s icy shell and its surface interactions with the ocean below, to investigate its composition, and to characterize its geology. The mission\u2019s detailed exploration of Europa will help scientists better understand the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond our planet.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Europa and Europa Clipper, go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/europa-clipper\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/europa-clipper\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield \u2014 and the planet Uranus \u2014 on Nov. 5,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,88940,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-145114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-photojournal","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}