SpazeMoon of Jupiter
Amalthea
The reddest object in the solar system. It is so porous it may be a loose rubble pile, and it orbits inside Jupiter’s faint gossamer ring.
- Diameter
- 167 km
- Gravity
- 0.002 g
- Orbit
- 12.0 hours
- From Jupiter
- 181,366 km
Can we live on Amalthea?
Air: none to speak of. You’d live in sealed, pressurised habitats.
Gravity: 0.00 g. Someone who weighs 70 kg on Earth would weigh 0 kg there.
Ground: Porous rock and ice, dusted red with sulphur from Io.
Atmosphere
- None to speak of
Measured by NASA