Amalthea: Facts about Jupiter’s unusual inner moon | Space

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Artist’s illustration of Amalthea orbiting Jupiter. (Image credit: Ianm35 via Getty Images) 

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Jovian moon Amalthea (center) as photographed by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in January 2000. Beside it are Thebe (left) and Metis (right). (Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell University)

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Amalthea casts a shadow on Jupiter in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. (Image credit: Enhanced Image by Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran (CC BY-NC-SA) based on images provided Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)