page_title: Amalthea (moon)
section_title: How Amalthea looks from Jupiter
hierarchical_section_title: Amalthea (moon) / How Amalthea looks from Jupiter
caption_attribution_description: English: Simulation of en:Amalthea (moon) orbiting en:Jupiter. Created using en:Celestia software. Distance from Amalthea is 1,000 km, field of view is 26 degrees.Français&#160;: Copie d'écran du logiciel libre Celestia.
context_page_description: Amalthea is the third closest moon to Jupiter. It was found on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology. It is also known as Jupiter V.
  On Amalthea, Jupiter would be an amazing sight in its sky, looking 92 times bigger than the Full Moon. Amalthea is the biggest of the closer moons of Jupiter. Non-spherical and reddish in colour, it is thought to have of water ice with unknown amounts of other materials. Its surface has big craters and high mountains.
  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.
context_section_description: From Jupiter's surface —or rather, from just above its cloudtops— Amalthea would appear very bright, shining with a magnitude of −4.7, similar to that of Venus from Earth.
caption: Computer simulation of Amalthea and Jupiter. The 'camera' is 1,000km from Amalthea and the field of view is 26°.
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