Juno Gave NASA Controllers Quite the Scare During Recent Jupiter Flyby

It has been a big probe for about a decade, a harsh Joviya environment to bring us Angry, Jupiter and close views of his months. But sometimes the gas giant takes the best. Recently, the Juno mission has temporarily strengthened scientific tools and moved into an unexpected safe mode during the planned flysty in Jupiter.

Juno approached Jupiter if NASA entered the spare status twice as NASA flew in the background in April 41 obvious. It is not exactly what the guests can cause to the safe regime, but the space agency believes that the space ship can happen as Jupiter flies with radiation belts.

The mission operations have restored data transfer with Juno and the data showed that the spacecraft passed to safe mode about Flyby 5:17. Juno re-entered the safe mode 45 minutes after a close approach to the nearby approach to Perijovove or Jupiter. Ungrateful functions in space ships are suspended during safe mode. Juno, communication and power management systems, reduced their scientific tools. The spacecraft was rebuilt to the ship’s computer and directed his antennas to earth.

Safe mode is activated when the spacecraft reveals anomaly. Although the team still expects information to analyze the information to understand what is wrong with the wrong, the early indicators show that Juno flies with Jupiter’s radiation pipes when the safe mode is activated.

Jupiter’s magnetic field is stronger than 20,000 times and the strongest of all planets in the solar system. The planet’s magnetosphere traps accelerate as particles charged and then a particle accelerator European Space Agency. The highest flows of energy particles are found in the input pipelines of the Jupiter’s equator and radiation pipelines.

Juno has a titanium radiation vault to prevent high energy particles from influencing the spacecraft, but sometimes it is not enough. The spacecraft passed four times to a safe mode since he came to Jupiter in 2016.

After communicating with Juno, the team works for the transfer of previously collected data, as the space ship had diagnosed a flight program diagnostics, as the space ship was carried out by the flight program diagnostics.

Juno is planned for a flyby approaching Jupiter on May 7, and a close approach to Jovian 1 to 55,300 miles (89,000 kilometers) during this period. Hopefully the spacecraft is able to catch scientific tools this time.