Tag: space probe

Juno space probe now orbiting Jupiter.

Which is cool, for two reasons:

  1. We took a delicate and complex mechanical and electronic contraption and threw it at Jupiter, in such a way that it will endlessly loop around the planet for the foreseeable future.  Sure, we put a rocket engine on the probe in order to fine-tune the process, but the process itself is massively awesome.
  2. As somebody on Twitter noted, we sent an artificial moon named after Jupiter’s wife to orbit Jupiter – whose moons are all named after Jupiter’s mistresses*.  This is a rather good joke.

Moe Lane

*And ‘cup-bearer.’