{"id":19202,"date":"2016-10-20T01:39:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-juno-orbiter-reboots-itself-and-misses-out-on-a-jupiter-photo-op\/"},"modified":"2016-10-20T01:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:39:16","slug":"nasas-juno-orbiter-reboots-itself-and-misses-out-on-a-jupiter-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-juno-orbiter-reboots-itself-and-misses-out-on-a-jupiter-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter reboots itself \u2013 and misses out on a Jupiter photo op"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Juno
An artist\u2019s conception shows the Juno orbiter during a close flyby of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA says its Juno orbiter experienced a reboot of its onboard computer late Tuesday, just as it was getting ready to collect data during a close flyby of Jupiter.<\/p>\n

As a result, Juno\u2019s instruments were off during the flyby, and the data went uncollected.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time safe mode was entered, the spacecraft was more than 13 hours from its closest approach to Jupiter,\u201d Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said today in a news release. \u201cWe were still quite a ways from the planet\u2019s more intense radiation belts and magnetic fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA said the spacecraft restarted successfully and is going through flight software diagnostics. Engineers are trying to pinpoint what set off the reboot.<\/p>\n

The computer problem was the second glitch affecting the bus-sized spacecraft this month. Last week, mission managers decided to postpone a burn of the spacecraft\u2019s main engine, due to a problem with the performance of a pair of valves that are part of its propulsion system. That burn would have reduced Juno\u2019s orbital period from 53.4 days to 14 days.<\/p>\n

Juno\u2019s next close flyby is about 53 days from now, on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n

\"Jupiter's
This image of the sunlit part of Jupiter and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Alex Mai using data from Juno\u2019s JunoCam instrument. (Credit: Alex Mai \/ NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mission\u2019s science team is continuing to analyze readings from Juno\u2019s first close flyby on Aug. 27. Those readings show that the giant planet\u2019s magnetic fields and aurora are bigger and more powerful than previously thought, NASA said. The August flyby also provided the first opportunity for Juno\u2019s Microwave Radiometer to map the three-dimensional structure of Jupiter\u2019s clouds as far down as 250 miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is as if we took an onion and began to peel the layers off to see the structure and processes going on below,\u201d principal investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute said. \u201cWe are seeing that those beautiful belts and bands of orange and white we see at Jupiter\u2019s cloud tops extend in some version as far down as our instruments can see, but seem to change with each layer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August, the spacecraft\u2019s JunoCam instrument captured a series of close-ups that were made available to amateur image-processing specialists. \u201cAll sorts of people are coming to the JunoCam site and providing their own aesthetic,\u201d said Candy Hansen, JunoCam imaging scientist from the Planetary Science Institute. \u201cWe have volunteers from all over the world, and they are doing beautiful work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juno\u2019s primary mission is to map Jupiter\u2019s magnetic field, its clouds and its interior structure. The JunoCam pictures are acquired mostly for public outreach purposes.<\/p>\n

\"Jupiter
This rendering of Jupiter was tweaked by citizen scientist Randy Ahn to create a false-color yellow smiley face. Jupiter\u2019s half-lit image was copied and flipped to create the full face. (Credit: Randy Ahn \/ NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An artist\u2019s conception shows the Juno orbiter during a close flyby of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA) NASA says its Juno orbiter experienced a reboot of its onboard computer late Tuesday, just as it was getting ready to collect data during a close flyby of Jupiter. As a result, Juno\u2019s instruments were off during the flyby, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5098,1606],"class_list":["post-19202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juno-mission","tag-jupiter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}