Juno heads back toward Jupiter, ready for science

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Here's an update on JUNO and it's damn suspicious...

The space agency said Wednesday that Juno detected a problem, went into safe mode and shut off its cameras and instruments hours before it was supposed to pass over Jupiter's dense cloud tops.

Juno rebooted its onboard computer and can communicate with Earth, but its activities are limited until engineers diagnose what went wrong.

So cameras are no longer working. Well...if I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd imagine that Never A Straight Answer doesn't want us to see something. Oh wait...

Scientists continued to pore over close-up images from the first flyby, determining that Jupiter's magnetic fields and northern and southern lights were more powerful than expected.

So there are pictures...we're just not privy to them.


Reminds me of a certain ISS that shuts its camera off whenever there's something ' a little un-explainable ' that shows up.


Just a bit convenient. But maybe that's just me : )

NASA: Jupiter spacecraft detects problem, turns off camera


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