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The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...
Because as you'll find, not every moon in this system is the same any more than the Galilean moons are the same. This is Amalthea, and if there were a single non-Galenian Jovian moon one could ...
Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...
Related: Jupiter's mysterious moon Amalthea spied crossing the Great Red Spot (photo) Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 ...
In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...
You know Metis and Thebe and Adrastea and Amalthea. Io and Ganymede and Callisto and Europa.
Processed by ... More Jackie Branc. Juno got a pixelated image of Amalthea, Jupiter's fifth-largest moon. Potato-shaped Amalthea orbits closer to Jupiter than Io and takes less than half a day to ...
Juno also passed close to the gas giant's fifth-largest moon, Amalthea. The tiny, potato-shaped inner moon is only about 52 miles wide. Gerald Eichstädt processed the photo of Amalthea ...
during which the spacecraft traveled close to the planet's poles as well as near the world's fifth-largest moon, Amalthea. The raw photo data captured by the spacecraft's JunoCam during the flyby ...
During this latest flyby, the spacecraft passed close to Amalthea, Jupiter's fifth-largest moon, characterized by its potato-like shape and small size. With a radius of 52 miles (84 kilometers ...