Juno, Juno, Juno! Hero, Hero, Hero!

Juno, Juno, Juno!

Hero, Hero, Hero!

NASA’s Hero! United States Hero!

Adding double cheers to the Independence day

Celebrations, cheers arriving at Jupiter, for the

long awaited rendezvous on  the 4 th July, 2016.

Launched in August,2011 atop Atlas V rocket

Released from the payload fairing after second stage

Finally separating from Centaur stage on

Orbit around  Earth, obtaining escape velocity

Zoomed into space in a helio centric orbit

Retuning to Earth in 2013, to get gravity assist boost

Propelled to Jupiter ,cruised on 5 years in

blank space powered by solar panel arrays for the

first time unlike the other spacecrafts into deep space

using Radio Thermoelectric Generator(RTG), Hurtling

at an incredible speed of 2,66,000 km/hour,decelerating

it to  capture into Jupiter’s Orbit on 5 th July, 2016

Aptly named after the Jupiter God’s wife Juno

able to see through the clouds

Set by her husband to hide his mischief

Juno will resolve the mysteries of the giant planet

Peering through it’s atmosphere, gravity field,

Magnetic fields, water and ammonia

It’s origin and evolution over 37 orbits

lasting 20 months, providing clue

to the formation of solar system,

All such planetary systems, other star systems

All through the universe, Juno is real hero!

Well done NASA! Well done Juno!

-Mohan Sanjeevan