The researchers compared the structure of Jupiter with a layered onion.
Space the NASA spacecraft Juno, which U.S. scientists studied Jupiter entered safe mode on Tuesday, October 18. The first data about the planet.
When you go into safe mode, the probe was successfully restarted and is now in good condition. Now data is collected for the next flight around Jupiter.
“At the moment of transition in safe mode, the spacecraft was more than 13 hours from its closest approach to Jupiter,” said project Manager Juno in Pasadena, California Rick Nybakken. — He was in the zone with more intense radiation and magnetic field. So now the probe is in order and we’re working on our standard recovery procedure”.
The spacecraft enters in safe mode if its on-Board computer perceives conditions are not such as was expected by experts.
Following the close approach near Jupiter, scheduled for 11 December.
Juno science team continues to analyze the data obtained Juno. It follows that the magnetic field and auroras of Jupiter’s larger and more powerful than originally thought. Microwave radiometer Juno (MWR) have provided data that give scientists a review below the clouds of the planet at 400 miles. “Images from the radar Juno was like an onion, we remove one layer at a time to see the structure and processes occurring on the next layer — said Scott Bolton, Director of the research Institute. “We saw that beautiful orange and white stripes that can be seen on the surface of Jupiter, there are also at the greatest depth, which can look Juno, although the structure of some of them changing every layer of “the onion”
The Juno spacecraft launched August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and arrived at Jupiter on 4 July 2016 during its reconnaissance mission, the probe hovers low over the tops of the clouds of the planet, at a distance of 4,100 km During these flights, Juno will explore the cloud cover of Jupiter and to study its radiance to learn more about the origin of the planet’s structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
The probe is named in honor of Juno in Roman mythology is not accidental. The mythical God Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief, and his wife, the goddess Juno, could see through the clouds and reveal the true nature of Jupiter.
