The surface of Amalthea is slightly brighter than surfaces of other inner satellites of Jupiter.

Amalthea was photographed in 1979 and 1980 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.

Due to its low density and irregular shape, the escape velocity at the surface points of Amalthea closest to and furthest from Jupiter is no more than 1 m / s and dust can easily escape from it after, e. g. micrometeorite impacts ; this dust forms the Amalthea Gossamer Ring.

From the surface of Amalthea, Jupiter would look enormous: 46 degrees across, it would appear roughly 92 times larger than the full moon.

Although the numbers initially designated the moons in orbital sequence, new discoveries soon failed to conform with this scheme ( e. g. " Jupiter V " is Amalthea, which orbits closer to Jupiter than does Io ).

In Greek mythology, the constellation is sometimes identified as Amalthea, the goat that suckled the infant Zeus after his mother Rhea saved him from being devoured by his father Cronos ( in Greek mythology ).

He published lectures on the history of ancient sculpture in 1806, and painting in 1811, and edited the three volumes of an archaeological periodical called Amalthea from 1820 to 1825, which included contributions from the most eminent classical archaeologists of the day.

Amalthea ( ; ) is the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet.

Amalthea is in a close orbit around Jupiter and is within the outer edge of the Amalthea Gossamer Ring, which is formed from dust ejected from its surface.

The satellite is named after the nymph Amalthea from Greek mythology who nursed the infant Zeus ( the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ) with goat's milk.

Amalthea's orbit lies near the outer edge of the Amalthea Gossamer Ring, which is composed of the dust ejected from the satellite.

The surface of Amalthea is very red ( that is, its reflectivity increases with the wavelength from the green to near-infrared ).

However, on November 5, 2002, the Galileo orbiter made a targeted flyby that came within 160 km of Amalthea and the deflection of its orbit was used to compute the moon's mass ( its volume had been calculated previously — to within 10 % or so — from a careful analysis of all extant images ).

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.

Because Amalthea is in synchronous rotation, Jupiter would not appear to move, and would be invisible from one side of Amalthea.

* " View from Amalthea " ( December 1968 )

Amalthea is thought to be a fragment from the mantle of a Vesta-sized parent body that broke up around one billion years ago, with the other major remnant being 9 Metis.

The name comes from Amalthea of Greek mythology.

13 ) Zeus is said to have used the skin of the goat deity Amalthea ( aigis " goat-skin ") which suckled him in Crete, as a shield when he went forth to do battle against the Titans.

During its flyby of Amalthea, the Galileo orbiter's star scanner detected nine flashes which appear to be small moonlets near the orbit of Amalthea.

In 1979 – 1980, the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft made the first images of Amalthea, which resolved its surface.

There are four named geological features on Amalthea: two craters and two faculae ( bright spots ), which are believed to be mountains.

Other names, like Adrasteia, Ide, the nymph of Mount Ida, or Adamanthea, which appear in mythology handbooks, are simply duplicates of Amalthea.

Now Amalthea had as a pet a certain goat which is said to have nursed Jove.

Many of the sculptures are displayed in the spaces they were intended for, including many works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which comprise a large percent of his lifetime output of secular sculpture, starting with a juvenile, but talented, work such as the Goat Amalthea with Infant Jupiter and Faun ( 1615 )< ref >

* Launch of his biography “ Samy Molcho ... And A Drop Of Eternity ” which is published by Amalthea, Vienna.

* July 11 – July 12 – The steamship Amalthea, housing 80 British strikebreakers while in Malmö harbour, Sweden, is bombed by Anton Nilson ; 1 is killed, 20 injured.

The bulk composition and mass of Metis are not known, but assuming that its mean density is like that of Amalthea (~ 0. 86 g / cm³ ), its mass can be estimated as ~ 3. 6 × 10 < sup > 16 </ sup > kg.

Amalthea is the largest of the inner satellites of Jupiter.

Such appreciably nonzero values of inclination and eccentricity, though still small, are unusual for an inner satellite and can be explained by the influence of the innermost Galilean satellite, Io: in the past Amalthea has passed through several mean motion resonances with Io that have excited its inclination and eccentricity ( in a mean motion resonance the ratio of orbital periods of two bodies is a rational number like m: n ).

Bright patches of green appear on the major slopes of Amalthea, but the nature of this color is currently unknown.

Amalthea is irregularly shaped, with the best ellipsoidal approximation being.

Unfortunately, NASA didn't publish any picture of Amalthea during this famous flyby on November 5, 2002, and the resolution ( number of pixels ) of the released Jovian satellite pictures is generally low.

It was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard and named after Amalthea, a nymph in Greek mythology.

Amalthea was discovered on September 9, 1892, by Edward Emerson Barnard using the 36 inch ( 91 cm ) refractor telescope at Lick Observatory.

A suggested example of such old family remains are the 9 Metis and 113 Amalthea pair.

* Amalthea ( mythology ), the foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology.

* Amalthea ( moon ), the ( conventionally ) fifth moon of Jupiter.

* Horn of Plenty ( disambiguation ), also known as Cornucopia and the Horn of Amalthea, a symbol of food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC

Amalthea is sometimes represented as the goat who suckled the infant-god in a cave in Cretan Mount Aigaion (" Goat Mountain "), sometimes as a goat-tending nymph of uncertain parentage ( the daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olenos, or — according to Lactantius — Melisseus ), who brought him up on the milk of her goat.

) However, to induce his wife to like his new acquisition, Louis XVI commissioned in great secret the construction of the renowned Laiterie de la Reine, ( the Queen's dairy ), where the buckets were of Sèvres porcelain, painted and grained to imitate wood, and the presiding nymph was a marble Amalthea, with the goat that nurtured Jupiter, sculpted by Pierre Julien.

* Gaea ( crater ), crater on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter

* Pan ( crater ), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea

There are loose connections of early stories The Land of Crimson Clouds (" Страна багровых туч "), The Way to Amalthea (" Путь на Амальтею "), Space Apprentice (" Стажеры "), The Final Circle of Paradise ( through Ivan Zhilin ), Ispytanie SKIBR, Chastnye predpolozheniya, mainly through Bykovs family.