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Juno

Juno

1 6.6
A NASA spacecraft launched in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter
  • proper noun
  • /ˈdʒuːnoʊ/
translation icon : Juno
  • NASA's Juno website currently reports: "The spacecraft is in excellent health and is operating nominally."
  • Juno spacecraft
  • Juno mission
  • NASA's Juno

We have Juno in orbit around Jupiter.

Examples

  • Initiatives in recent years to power spacecraft safely and cleanly include the launch by NASA last August 8th of a solar-powered space probe it calls Juno to Jupiter.

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  • So there's a lot of data now from the Juno mission about Jupiter's poles.

  • We have Juno in orbit around Jupiter.

  • I am dying to see 'Juno' and 'Atonement', but they have yet to come to my desolate corner of the island.

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  • There's Felix and Charlie and Juno Temple, none of whom, by the way, have curly red hair, and the boys were slightly alarmed by their hair.

  • On the morning of June 6, 1944, tens of thousands of Allied soldiers stormed the beaches, code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword.

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  • The loss of JIMO may strengthen the case for developing Juno, a spacecraft that would go into polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate the existence of an ice-rock core.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Juno is currently competing for approval against Moonrise, a lunar sample return mission (see PHYSICS TODAY, February 2005, page 26), and a final decision on which mission will get the go-ahead will be made later this year.

    Academic text (2006)
  • NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter, allowing scientists to study the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field.

  • The Juno mission, which was launched in 2011, aims to enhance our understanding of Jupiter's interior structure.

Synonyms

space probe
vsJuno
  • Specialized
11 4.2

A machine sent into space without people to study planets and send information back

is a specific mission launched in 2011 to study one planet

Compounds

bird of Juno
  • Archaic
9.9

A large bird from Southeast Asia that people keep for bright feathers and beauty

Surface Forms

Juno main

Etymology

Juno is the NASA spacecraft named after the Roman goddess Juno. In myth she could 'see through clouds' to watch Jupiter, and the probe's job is to look beneath Jupiter's thick clouds to study the planet's inside.