Abstract

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has announced that Amalthea, a 270‐km‐long, potato‐shaped inner moon of Jupiter, “apparently is a loosely packed pile of rubble,” with empty space where the rubble does not fit well together.This is among the new findings about the moon announced by JPL astronomer John Anderson and his colleagues on 9 December at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

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