art of cosmos

On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby. For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto a digital sphere and used to create the flyby animation. Synthetic frames were added to provide views of approach and departure for both Ganymede and Jupiter. Animation by Koji Kuramura, Gerald Eichstädt, Mike Stetson; music by Vangelis; production by Scott J. Bolton; credit by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.