UPDATED Jan. 19, 2023: Information acquired from Juno signifies the primary 4 of 90 pictures taken by the spacecraft’s JunoCam outreach digicam throughout its most up-to-date flyby of Jupiter (Perijove 47) have been degraded: two have been unusable and two had a excessive degree of picture noise. The JunoCam workforce believes the lack of these pictures is because of an anomalous temperature rise that occurred when the digicam energy was turned on in preparation for the flyby. Subsequent pictures – captured after the instrument returned to regular temperatures – weren’t degraded. The workforce plans to go away the instrument turned on after the subsequent flyby, Perijove 48, moderately than powering it off after which on once more earlier than Perijove 49.
JunoCam is a colour, visible-light digicam designed to seize photos of Jupiter’s cloud tops. It was included on the spacecraft particularly for functions of public engagement; though its pictures have been useful to the science workforce, it’s not thought of one of many mission’s science devices. The digicam was initially designed to function in Jupiter’s high-energy particle surroundings for no less than seven orbits however has survived far longer. The spacecraft will make its forty eighth go of the planet on Jan. 22.
UPDATED Jan. 10, 2023: Juno returned to nominal operations Dec. 29, 2022, after going into secure mode on Dec. 17 in response to the onboard laptop reminiscence anomaly that occurred throughout its Dec. 14 shut go of Jupiter. As anticipated, nearly all of the science knowledge collected in the course of the flyby (together with all knowledge associated to Jupiter’s moon Io) was efficiently acquired and solely a small portion was corrupted by the anomaly. Instrument restoration actions are actually full, and the spacecraft is functioning nominally. Juno’s subsequent flyby of Jupiter will happen on Sunday, Jan. 22.
The science knowledge from the solar-powered spacecraft’s most up-to-date flyby of Jupiter and its moon Io seems to be intact.
