Thebe also known as Jupiter XIV, is the fourth of Jupiter's moons by distance from the planet. It was discovered by Stephen P. Synnott in images from the Voyager 1 space probe taken on March 5, 1979, while making its flyby of Jupiter. In 1983, it was officially named after the mythological nymph Thebe.  The second largest of the inner satellites of Jupiter, Thebe orbits within the outer edge of the Thebe gossamer ring that is formed from dust ejected from its surface.  It is irregularly shaped and reddish in color.  Thebe was imaged in 1979 by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, and later, in more detail, by the Galileo orbiter in the 1990s.

Thebe

SPICE-corrected image locations and searching capabilities using a navigable map, user selectable image constraints, bulk-download and image processing using POW

Planetary Image Locator Tool

PDS Image Atlas

Cross-mission and cross-instrument searches for images and spectra from Cassini, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, New Horizons, and the Hubble Space Telescope

Thebe Information Page

Related Targets