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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Related: Jupiter's mysterious moon Amalthea spied crossing the Great Red Spot (photo) Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's ...

Amalthea and Adrastea were both found relatively ... they orbit around Io, a large and dense moon of Jupiter. The satellite is notable in a number of ways: it is the most geologically active ...

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 ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

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 ...