Amalthea News & Updates

Amalthea: The Most Fascinating Jovian Moon You've Never Heard Of

Almost everyone knows that Jupiter has more moons than it probably knows what to do with—Ninety-fi...

Dec 27, 2023 • autoevolution

Jupiter's mysterious moon Amalthea spied crossing the Great Red Spot (photo)

Amalthea is a rubble pile moon that sports a curiously red surface and an anomalous energy budget. W...

May 13, 2024 • Space.com

Amalthea: Jupiter’s unusual inner moon

The mysterious, irregularly shaped Amalthea is one of Jupiter’s five inner moons. When you purchas...

May 12, 2022 • Space.com

Jupiter's storms and its 'potato' moon Amalthea stun in new NASA Juno probe images

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Nov 11, 2024 • Yahoo

Jovian moon Amalthea is a rubble pile

Orbiting just 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloudtops, the giant planet’s in...

May 26, 2005 • Astronomy

NASA Juno Spacecraft Snaps ‘Reddest Object In The Solar System’

Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstadt processed a JunoCam image that reveals tiny moon Amalthea in fron...

May 14, 2024 • Forbes

Is Jupiter’s Moon Amalthea ever visible in amateur instruments? If so, what aperture and magnification are needed, and when is a good time to try?

American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea on September 8, 1892, using the 36-in...

Dec 28, 2014 • Astronomy

Tiny Moon Amalthea Photobombs NASA Juno Probe Photo of Jupiter, Looks Super Cute

Do you sometimes forget the Jupiter has a lot more than a handful of major moons? It's not hard to, ...

May 16, 2024 • autoevolution

‘Potato Moon’ Photobombs Jupiter’s Great Red Spot In New NASA Images

NASA’s Juno mission captured these views of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant plane...

May 15, 2024 • Forbes

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Mysterious Fifth Moon Amalthea

according to NASA, Amalthea has a potato-like shape. NASA's Juno Spacecraft recently spotted the mys...

May 20, 2024 • NDTV

How the Apple Vision Pro team allowed me to work remotely from a realistic version of Jupiter’s moon, Amalthea

We talked to members of Apple's Vision Pro design team to find out how Environments so effectively a...

Feb 27, 2026 • Popular Science

Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ Is Shrinking — And Scientists Think They Know Why

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writ...

May 08, 2026 • Forbes

A T-Shirt At Amalthea

Personnel Transfer Vehicle HM-6YK was thirty two hours out of Ganymede station en route to Amalthea ...

Sep 09, 2014 • Hackaday