Amalthea and Adrastea were both found relatively long ago. Amalthea was found in 1892, ... they orbit around Io, a large and dense moon of Jupiter. The satellite is notable in a number of ways: ...

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.

Thebe is the fourth small moon located within Io's orbit. It has a diameter of 100 kilometres and, like Metis and Adrastea, was discovered during the flybys of the two Voyager spacecraft in 1979 on ...

As the most massive planet in the Solar System, and first to form, Jupiter’s gravity shaped the formation of everything else. To better understand how the newborn giant threw its weight around ...

That's a moon, orbiting its enormous mother planet in space. ... Adrastea, and Thebe. It's so close to Jupiter, in fact, it only takes Amalthea half of a day on Earth to circle its planet. ...

In fact, Amalthea and Adrastea are one of very many satellites in orbit around Jupiter. When Nasa revealed a stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, it was Jupiter that stood out.