Finding corrupted images is devastating, but what happens when that camera is 370 million miles away? NASA shares how it saved the busted camera aboard Jupiter’s Juno

A photograph taken by the JunoCam of the north polar region of Io.

As a photographer, I’ve known the horror of opening images to find them corrupted – but I imagine that feeling pales in comparison to what NASA felt when Juno, a spacecraft orbiting Jupiter 370 million miles away, began returning corrupted images from a radiation-fried camera.

Launching another camera isn’t exactly an option, considering the total costs of the Juno spacecraft and mission sit a $1.13 billion, and it’s not like there’s a camera repair shop on Jupiter.