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    Sun-Watching Space Telescope Bounces Back From Glitch

    A spacecraft designed to stare at the sun is back up and running after a technical glitch temporarily sidelined the observatory for just over a week.The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint mission by NASA and the European Space Agency, suffered a glitch last week that put the spacecraft in a so-called "safe" mode, said Joe Gurman, a SOHO project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md."You safe a spacecraft if you don't know what its status is," Gurman told SPACE.com. "This makes sure that you're pointing at the sun, it makes sure the solar arrays are power positive."After engineers at NASA and the European Space Agency worked tirelessly to recover the spacecraft, SOHO successfully sent back a new image of the sun today (May 11), a view that included the bright planet Jupiter."Happy! @NASA/@ESA's SOHO has been recovered. In this LASCO C3 image we can even see Jupiter," Camilla Corona SDO, the rubber chicken mascot for NASA's Solar Dynamics Observ...

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