All good things must come to a end, but Juno — NASA's $1-billion mission to study Jupiter like never before — has gotten a crucial life extension.

NASA originally planned to destroy its tennis-court-size robot by crashing it into Jupiter's bottomless clouds this summer. The rationale: Any earthly microbes stuck to Juno might contaminate the planet's moon Europa, which hides a potentially habitable alien ocean beneath its icy crust.

However, as Business Insider first reported in June, the space agency gave Juno a critical new lease on life that will keep the probe flying until at least July 2021.

Juno launched from Earth in August 2011, reached Jupiter in July 2016, and has made 14 high-speed flybys, called perijoves, around the gas giant. Each perijove has helped scientists peer through Jupiter's thick cloud layers, search for an elusive planetary core, and gather stunning images of colossal storms and chaotic cloud bands.

With the next phase of Juno's mission at Jupiter now beginning, we've rounded up some of the probe's most jaw-dropping photos, data imaging, and animations.

This story has been updated. It was originally published on April 27, 2018.