{"id":29198,"date":"2025-01-05T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29198"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T19:45:19","slug":"europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/europa\/","title":{"rendered":"Key facts about Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Europa:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>smallest and second nearest of the four large moons (Galilean satellites) discovered around Jupiter by<\/strong> the Italian astronomer <strong>Galileo<\/strong> in 1610.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Europa is <strong>a rocky object covered with<\/strong> an extremely <strong>smooth<\/strong>, elaborately patterned <strong>surface of ice.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Europa has a diameter of 3,130 km (1,940 miles), which makes it a <strong>little smaller than Earth\u2019s Moon.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Europa may be one of the <strong>most promising places<\/strong> in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable <strong>for some form of life beyond Earth.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists believe a saltwater ocean lies beneath its icy shell, holding twice as much water as Earth&#8217;s global ocean.<\/li>\n<li>It also may have the chemical elements that are key ingredients to life.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Europa was first observed at close range in 1979 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and then by the Galileo orbiter beginning in the mid-1990s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NASA launched Europa Clipper on Oct. 14, 2024,<\/strong> to determine whether there are places below Europa&#8217;s surface that could support life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a satellite?<\/h3>\n<p>It is anything that orbits a planet or a star. Earth is a satellite orbiting the Sun. The Moon is a satellite orbiting Earth. When you launch a spacecraft into orbit around Earth, that\u2019s a satellite, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/114558\/OPS\/GD0DQCRC8.1+GR2DQE1SS.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Hunt for life on Jupiter\u2019s moon hits an ice block<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europa is the smallest and second nearest of the four large moons (Galilean satellites) discovered around Jupiter by the Italian astronomer Galileo in 1610.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29198","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\/29198","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=29198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}