What is Amalthea?
Q: What is Amalthea?
A: Amalthea is the third closest moon to Jupiter.
Q: Who discovered Amalthea and when?
A: Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea on September 9, 1892.
Q: What is Amalthea also known as?
A: Amalthea is also known as Jupiter V.
Q: How big does Jupiter look in the sky on Amalthea?
A: Jupiter would look 92 times bigger than the Full Moon in Amalthea's sky.
Q: What is the surface of Amalthea like?
A: The surface of Amalthea has big craters and high mountains.
Q: When were pictures of Amalthea taken and by which spacecrafts?
A: Pictures of Amalthea were taken in 1979 and 1980 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.
Q: What do we know about the composition of Amalthea?
A: Amalthea is non-spherical and reddish in colour, and it is thought to have water ice with unknown amounts of other materials.
