Learning / English Dictionary

JUNO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman mythology) queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage; wife and sister of Jupiter; counterpart of Greek Hera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)

Domain category:

Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)

Credits

 Context examples: 

"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its long anticipated arrival at Jupiter on July 4.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the small moon of Jupiter.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that are now being returned to Earth.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Juno data indicate that the solar system's most famous storm is almost one-and-a-half Earths wide, and has roots that penetrate about 200 miles (300 kilometers) into the planet's atmosphere.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)

The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

The observations made by Juno's magnetometers will also add to our understanding of Earth's dynamo, the source of our planet's magnetic field, which lies deep beneath a magnetized layer of rocks and iron.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

This flyby was the closest Juno will get to Jupiter during its prime mission.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)