The Juno spacecraft was launched from Earth on August 5, 2011 to explore Jupiter. When Juno arrived at our neighbor, the gas giant, on July 5, 2016, it had a mission to explore the interior of Jupiter. The magnetic and radiation environment of the star. This is where scientists hope to find important answers. For example, does this planet have a strong core? But Juno didn't just explore Jupiter. But it also reveals Jupiter's inner moons as well.
Recently, citizen scientists processed images from the Juno spacecraft's Juno Cam, revealing the presence of Amalthea, a small moon of Jupiter. Its diameter is only 84 kilometers, and you can see a small spot in the image. This is Amalthea. Moving through Jupiter's Great Red Spot The images were taken by the Juno spacecraft during its 59th flyby of Jupiter, at a distance of 265,000 kilometers from the star, roughly two-thirds of the distance between Earth and Earth's moons.
Jupiter is the largest planet. There are currently 95 known moons, and Amalthea is considered an elusive moon. The shape is not round but resembles a potato. It was discovered by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard. Using the Lick Observatory telescope in California, USA, on the night of September 9, 1892.
Source: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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