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(m´ts), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
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Image of Metis was taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system between November 1996 and June 1997.
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Metis [MEE-tis] is the innermost known satellite of Jupiter. It was named after a Titaness who was a consort of Zeus (Jupiter).
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This moon was discovered by Synnott in 1979. In ancient mythology Metis was a Titaness who was the first wife of Jupiter. Metis is the closest moon to the surface of Jupiter, and can be found with in the planets main ring. ...
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Metis ( "MEE tis" ) is the innermost of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit: 128,000 km from Jupiter diameter: 40 km mass: 9.56e16 kg ...
Metis meant "cunningness" or "craft, skill" in Ancient Greek.Metis may also refer to:* Metis , a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus...
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Metis and Adrastea orbit near its outer edge.
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Metis is the closest of Jupiter's 16 moons . Metis is 25 miles (40 km) in diameter and orbits 79,500 miles (128,000 km) from Jupiter, within Jupiter's main ring.
Rings Metis and Adrastea Cassini images showed the degree to which the orbits of two small moons near the ring, Metis and Adrastea, are inclined. That matches the vertical thickness of the ring.
The four rings - Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, and Amalthea - are constantly struck by meteoroids collisions that shower Jupiter's rings with more debris and dusts.
Metis (NASA Thesaurus) A natural satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 127,960 kilometers.
The main ring is probably made of material ejected from the satellites Adrastea and Metis. Material that would normally fall back to the moon is pulled into Jupiter because of its strong gravitational pull.
These images of the inner Jovian moons Thebe, Amalthea, and Metis (left to right), taken in January, 2000, by the Galileo spacecraft, are the highest resolution images ever obtained of these small, irregularly shaped satellites.
Inner satellites or Amalthea group-they orbit very close to Jupiter: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe.
Like its inner neighbor, Metis, it orbits faster than Jupiter spins on its axis, a situation that results in orbital instability and will eventually cause Adrastea to spiral into Jupiter's atmosphere.
Their names, in order from Jupiter are Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe. Still in order after the Galilean Satellites are recently discovered Themisto, Leda, Himalia, Lysithea, and Elara.
The calculations also showed that in 1992 the comet had passed extremely close to Jupiter, inside the orbit of innermost moon Metis and just 21,000 kilometres above the planet's cloud tops (1.3 Jovian radii from the centre of the planet), ...
The moons of Jupiter are (in order by their distance from Jupiter): Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede (the biggest), Callisto (the second biggest), Leda (the smallest), Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, Sinope, ...
The main ring is made of dust from the satellites Adrastea and Metis. Two wide gossamer rings encircle the main ring, originating from Thebe and Amalthea. There is also an extremely tenuous and distant outer ring that circles Jupiter backwards.
Adrastea and the first moon, Metis, are probably the source of the dust in this ring. Adrastea has a mass of 1.91 x 1016kg. It orbits Jupiter in 0.29826 (Earth) days; this is faster than Jupiter rotates on its axis. Adrastea was discovered by D.
The material in these rings must be continuously renewed, since it is visibly moving in toward the planet. It may be produced by the disintegration of small moonlets imbedded within it. The satellite Metis is just at the outer boundary and could be ...
However, they are probably also being continuously resupplied by dust driven into space from energic, interplanetary micrometeors that smash into Jupiter's four small, innermost moons: Metis, Adrastea, Thebe, and Amalthea -- more.
(The second-largest moon in the Solar System is Saturn's moon Titan.) The smaller moons are the size of asteroids, and were discovered in the 1900s with more powerful telescopes. Jupiter's moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Metis, ...
And through the process of waste thus set on foot, they finally dissolved into the aether, and expired " like spinning insects." (De Cometis; Opera, ed. Frisch, t. vii. p. 1 io.) This remarkable anticipation of the modern theory of light-pressure ...
The small, dark particles that make up the ring may be fragments chipped off by meteorite impacts from two small moons"Metis and Adastrea, discovered by Voyager"that lie very close to the ring itself.
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