Time-lapse video shows Jupiter images captured by Voyager 1

You’ve got to love technology. Thanks to space exploration, we’re given an inside look at the planets like we’d never be able to see them.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot viewed by Voyager 1.

Last year, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft finally entered interstellar space after 36 years of travelling.  In that time, it was able to capture images of the planets and give us a better look into outer space.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. The behemoth is about 89,000 miles in diameter, could swallow 1,000 earths and has bands of clouds carried by winds that exceed 400 mph that continuously circle it.

Such winds sustain spinning anticyclones like the Great Red Spot—a raging storm three and a half times the size of Earth located in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere.

In January and February 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft zoomed toward Jupiter, capturing hundreds of images during its approach. The observations revealed many unique features of the planet that are still being explored to this day.

Watch the quick, 27-second video to see a time-lapse of Jupiter assembled from images taken by the spacecraft.

Story and images via NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA/JPL.