JUNO

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• JUNO (noun)
  The noun JUNO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: JUNO used as a noun is very rare.

• JUNO (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)

 Context examples 

Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on Sept. 1.

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

Various efforts to measure water in Jupiter’s atmosphere, including NASA’s current Juno mission, have proved challenging.

(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno's mission (scheduled to end in February 2018).

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

The new Io hotspot JIRAM picked up is about 200 miles (300 kilometers) from the nearest previously mapped hotspot, said Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome.

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

Juno also has detected a new radiation zone, just above the gas giant's atmosphere, near the equator.

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

Coming face-to-face with the gas giant, Juno will begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries surrounding our solar system's largest planet, including the origin of its massive magnetosphere.

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

We realized that the orbit was going to carry Juno into Jupiter's shadow, which could have grave consequences because we're solar powered.

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

At the time, Juno was traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

At the time of perijove, Juno was about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.

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

Today, measurements by Earth-based telescopes indicate the oval that Juno flew over has diminished in width by one-third and height by one-eighth since Voyager times.

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