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on March 7, 2024. They provide a good look at Jupiter ’s colorful belts and swirling storms, including the Great Red Spot. Close examination reveals something more: two glimpses of the tiny moon Amalthea . Jupiter has at least 92 moons, but rarely are any but the very largest ever imaged by passing spacecraft.
The images show Amalthea above Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot,” an anticyclonic storm roughly the diameter of Earth that’s been raging since at least 1831.Amalthea is the reddest object in the solar system, according to NASA. It orbits very close to the giant planet—closer even than Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system. Amalthea takes less than half a day to orbit Jupiter.
NASA’s Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, capturing multiple images of the planet’s giant moons—Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.
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