But sometimes, the gas giant gets the best of it.
ET, which was about an hour ahead of its scheduled flyby.
Juno entered safe mode again around 45 minutes after perijove, or its close approach to Jupiter.
An illustration of NASA’s Juno flying above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.NASA/JPL-Caltech
During safe mode, nonessential functions on the spacecraft are suspended.
Juno powered down its science instruments while keeping its communication and power management systems on.
The spacecraft rebooted its computer, and pointed its antennas toward Earth for communication.
Safe mode is activated when the spacecraft detects an anomaly.
The highest fluxes of energetic particles are found in the doughnut-shaped belts around Jupiters equator, its radiation belts.
The spacecraft went into safe mode four times since arriving at Jupiter in 2016.
Hopefully the spacecraft manages to keep its science instruments turned on this time.
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