NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles (200 kilometers).

Amalthea, however, is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999. Large impact craters are visible. American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.