Jupiter's fifth moon to be discovered, and the fifth-largest of the planet's 95 known moons, is Amalthea. It was found in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard, an American astronomer who was an ...

Despite being Jupiter's fifth-largest moon, Amalthea has fairly modest dimensions. Irregularly shaped like a potato, its long axis stretches just 155 miles (250 kilometers), and its narrowest ...

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 ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps images of Jupiter and catches the tiny moon Amalthea as it orbits the planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt This is not just another ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

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 ...

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 ...