{"id":26743,"date":"2024-09-21T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26743"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T22:54:27","slug":"europa-clipper-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/europa-clipper-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Europa Clipper Mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Europa Clipper Mission:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>NASA mission<\/strong> to <strong>study Jupiter&#8217;s icy moon Europa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The mission will place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of Europa.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth,<\/strong> Europa Clipper aims <strong>to find out<\/strong> if the <strong>ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Europa shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft extends 100 feet (30.5 meters) from one end to the other and about 58 feet (17.6 meters) across.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>largest spacecraft NASA<\/strong> has ever <strong>developed for a planetary mission.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Europa Clipper will orbit Jupiter and <strong>conduct 49 close flybys of the moon<\/strong> to gather data needed to determine whether there are places below its thick frozen crust that could support life.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft carries nine science instruments and a gravity experiment that uses the telecommunications system.<\/li>\n<li>In order to obtain the best science during each flyby, all the science instruments will operate simultaneously on every pass. Scientists will then layer the data together to paint a full picture of the moon.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft has <strong>large solar arrays<\/strong> to collect enough light for its power needs as it operates in the Jupiter system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is a solar array?<\/h3>\n<p>A solar array is a group of solar panels wired together to create an electrical power output. You combine a solar array with other components, such as an inverter and battery, to complete a solar system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/science\/europa-clipper-mission-set-to-explore-jupiters-ocean-moon-heres-all-you-need-to-know\/articleshow\/113465576.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europa Clipper mission set to explore Jupiter\u2019s ocean moon; here\u2019s all you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europa Clipper Mission is a NASA mission to study Jupiter&#8217;s icy moon Europa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}