Learn about Jupiter’s weird inner moon Amalthea. It was not only the fifth Jovian satellite to be discovered, but it’s also the fifth-largest.

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 kilometers), Amalthea is significantly smaller than Earth 's moon.

This latest observation by NASA' s Juno probe was its first encounter with Amalthea in its continual series of 53-ish-day-long orbital transit around Jupiter, of which the probe has done at least ...

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 ...

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 ...

It'd take until 2002 for the moon to be studied closely by human-made probes when the Galileo mission observed Amalthea from a distance of 244 km (152 mi) and completed the mapping mission begun ...

Amalthea is small, but it’s interesting for scientists. The moon is the reddest object in our solar system. It also generates more heat than it gets from the sun.