Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the ...

Can a camera as far away as almost 600 million kilometers be repaired with no more than a burst of heat and an act of engineering wishful thinking? That was the question NASA engineers were confronted ...

NASA has successfully restored a damaged camera aboard its Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. The recovery of JunoCam, a ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some ...

NASA's Juno probe's been studying Jupiter for nine years. Conditions are super harsh, and the camera's been taking a beating.

The Southwest Research Institute-led mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian ...

Initially expected to last only eight orbits, JunoCam functioned normally through the spacecraft’s first 34 orbits.

The Southwest Research Institute-led mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move ...

Planetary geologists will be hoping JunoCam stays healthy to take much-needed images because the next two spacecraft due at Jupiter—NASA’s Europa Clipper in April 2030 and ESA’s JUpiter ...

JunoCam's images are only lightly processed by the camera's builder -- Malin Space Science Systems of San Diego -- and immediately posted on line. What happens after that is up to the public.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- Armchair astronomers are in for a historic treat. The first up-close glimpse of Jupiter's mysterious 'Giant Red Spot' will soon be beamed back to Earth by NASA's Juno ...