Exploration
In 1979–1980, the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft made the first images of Amalthea, which resolved its surface. They also measured the visible and infrared spectra and surface temperature. Later, the Galileo orbiter completed the imaging of Amalthea's surface. Amalthea provided the final satellite fly-by for Galileo on November 5, 2002, at a height of approximately 163 km (101 mi), permitting the moon's mass to be accurately determined, while changing Galileo's trajectory so that it would plunge into Jupiter in September 2003, having finished its mission. In 2006 Amalthea's orbit was refined by New Horizons spacecraft's instruments.
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“I call her old. She has one family
Whose claim is good to being settled here
Before the era of colonization,
And before that of exploration even.
John Smith remarked them as he coasted by....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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