{"id":6593,"date":"2025-07-21T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T06:37:23","slug":"rime-achieves-major-milestone-with-first-focused-radargram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/rime-achieves-major-milestone-with-first-focused-radargram\/","title":{"rendered":"RIME Achieves Major Milestone with First Focused Radargram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"435\">A major milestone has been reached by <strong data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"258\">RIME<\/strong> (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration), the radar sounder aboard ESA\u2019s <strong data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"333\">JUICE<\/strong> (JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer) mission: its <strong data-start=\"375\" data-end=\"402\">first focused radargram<\/strong> has been successfully generated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"642\">This achievement confirms that RIME is functioning as expected, delivering <strong data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"539\">high-quality radar data<\/strong> \u2014 a key step forward in preparing the instrument for its primary science phase at Jupiter\u2019s icy moons.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"975\">The radargram was produced using data collected during a <strong data-start=\"701\" data-end=\"731\">lunar flyby in August 2024<\/strong>. Remarkably, the region of the Moon scanned by RIME is the same area captured in the iconic \u201c<strong data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"838\">Earthrise<\/strong>\u201d photograph taken by NASA astronaut William Anders during the <strong data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"929\">Apollo 8 mission in 1968<\/strong> \u2014 now seen from a completely new perspective.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"982\" data-end=\"1002\">\ud83d\udd17 <strong data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"1000\">Learn more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1135\">\n<li data-start=\"1003\" data-end=\"1084\">\n<p data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1084\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Juice\/New_Apollo_Earthrise_view_shows_Juice_s_RIME_working_well\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1082\">ESA Web Story: New Apollo Earthrise view shows Juice\u2019s RIME working well<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1085\" data-end=\"1104\">\n<p data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1104\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/rime\/\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1102\">About RIME<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1135\">\n<p data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1135\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Juice\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1107\" data-end=\"1135\">About the JUICE mission<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" src=\"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-1024x637.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-1024x637.png 1024w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-1536x955.png 1536w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-2048x1273.png 2048w, https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/focused_radargram_fb-170x106.png 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/07\/First_radargram_from_Juice_s_RIME_instrument\">First radargram from Juice\u2019s RIME instrument<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major milestone has been reached by RIME (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration), the radar sounder aboard ESA\u2019s JUICE (JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer) mission: its first focused radargram has been successfully generated. This achievement confirms that RIME is functioning as expected, delivering high-quality radar data \u2014 a key step forward in preparing the instrument for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[4,56,29],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-press","tag-esa","tag-juice","tag-rime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6593"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6609,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6593\/revisions\/6609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rslab.disi.unitn.it\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}