How inappropriate!
Juno Spacecraft to Study Jupiter, we are informed by space.com. Don't people think before they give names, or choose songs? They select for weddings "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston, which is a song of irreversible parting, and I have even heard of a Church of England vicar choosing John Lennon's "Imagine there's no heaven" for something or other.
I live on the eastern side of the Pond, which makes me a European, and the name of our continent is taken from that of Europa in Greek mythology. If the gods of Greece still live on top of Mount Olympus, I would guess that that peak still sometimes echoes to:
I keep on telling you, Juno, I did not have sex with that woman!
You can read Virgil's Aeneid to see how much trouble that affair caused us mere mortals down here.
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