Jupiter's moons: Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, and Metis

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Pictures of Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, and Metis

This page contains pictures of Jupiter's moons: Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, and Metis.

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Click on any picture to get a larger image of that picture.

A comparison on the same scale of Amalthea and Io. Amalthea is about 150 kilometers across. Both photos are by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

Impact craters are visible on Amalthea. Impact craters on Io are quickly filled with lava from its currently active volcanoes.

The best pictures of the small inner satellites of Jupiter. Pictures taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.

From left to right these moons are: Thebe, Amalthea, Adrastea, and Metis. These moons and Long Island (a well know island in the USA) are all drawn to scale. The two moons on the left have some large impact craters.

Pictures of Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. These moons are small and irregularly shaped. The large impact crater on Thebe is 40 kilometers across.

Two pictures at the top are of Thebe, the next two pictures are Amalthea, with one picture of Metis at the bottom. These three moons are shown according to their correct relative sizes.

Pictures of Amalthea taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1999.

The impact crater on the right-hand side of both pictues is about 40 kilometers across. The long bright smear on both photographs may be ejecta from the impact crater to its right-hand side, or it may be a mountain ridge.

Some questions about these pictures of Jupiters smaller moons

Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...

Name three of Jupiters smaller moons.
Describe what Jupiter's smaller moons look like - their color and what you will find on them.
How large/small are the smaller moons of Jupiter?

All content provided Alwyn Botha, 2002.