Scientists can't say the origins of Amalthea for sure. But a theorized abundance of water ice housed deep within the moon could suggest it originates from somewhere other than the Jovian system.

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 ...

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

Amalthea, just one of Jupiter's 95 official moons, was first discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892. It is about 100 miles wide and clumsily shaped like a potato because it lacks the mass to ...

Amalthea and Adrastea were both found relatively long ago. ... Both of the planets are actually the moons of moons; they orbit around Io, a large and dense moon of Jupiter.

With just 110,000 miles and change (177,027.8 km) separating Amalthea from the upper wisps of Jupiter's thick atmosphere, a significant enough cosmic event in its vicinity might be enough to knock ...

Amalthea, known to be the reddest object in the solar system, was seen orbiting its massive mother planet. This hue is believed to be caused by sulfur from the nearby volcanic moon Io.

That was planetary scientists’ first glimpse of the moon since 2000 when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft revealed impact craters, hills and valleys on Amalthea.. Last year, scientists found 12 new ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe.Both are ...

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 ...