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Juno reaches Jupiter
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Juno approached Jupiter and achieved a perspective on the Galilean moons never seen before. (Moon video starts 35 seconds in.)

The name of the probe appears to be a joke 400 years in the making: Juno (the probe) is arriving at Jupiter to peer beneath his clouds, much as Juno (the goddess) did when Jupiter got frisky with Io under a cloud bank. Speaking of Juno, Jupiter, and Io:

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Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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