You should hang on tight as you watch Jupiter.
The view shows the perspective of NASA's Juno as it flew just 2,050 miles above the gas giant on April 9. During its 41st flyby above the planet, the spacecraft soared at a top speed of 131,000 mph.
NASA officials wrote in a statement (opens in new tab) Friday that the animated sequence was created by a citizen scientist.
Photos of crescent Jupiter and Ganymede were snapped by Juno.
The speed of the International Space Station is seven times faster than the speed of the Apollo missions as they traveled to the moon.
The colorful imagery was created from the raw images that officials uploaded to an image processing gallery that allowed citizen scientists to add their insights to the raw data.
NASA authorized an extension of the mission's mandate to focus more on the planet's four large moons in January 2021. It will run until September 2025.
The Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is the principal investigator of the extended mission.
As long as the mission is active, it will serve as a scout for future missions to Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is planning to visit Jupiter moons in the future.
The giant planet will be looked at from afar during the first set of observations. The Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program aims to study the gas giants of the solar system at least once every Earth year.
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