The Gaea Crater is a crater that appears on one of Jupiter's smallest moons, Amalthea. The crater's dimensions are: 80 kilometers in length and around at least 15 kilometers in depth. Gaea is one of two craters on Amalthea, the other being Pan. Look up crater on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Adjective Jovian Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ... Atmospheric pressure 0 kPa Amalthea (am-əl-thee-ə, IPA: , Greek Αμάλθεια) is the third moon of Jupiter (in order of distance from the planet), and the fifth in order of discovery, hence its Roman numeral designation of Jupiter V. It was discovered on September 9, 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard using... Pan is the largest crater on Jupiters moon Amalthea. ...
Gaea also is a neighbor to two (known) mountains on Amalthea, namely, Mons Lyctas and Mons Ida. Gaea's name comes from a Greek goddess to which James Lovelock used in explaining a theory of the Earth as one whole organism. Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Gaia (World Book «JEE uh») (land or earth, from the Greek ; variant spelling Gaea—see also also Ge from ) is a Greek goddess personifying the Earth. ... James Lovelock in front of a statue of Gaia in 2000 James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. ...
Gaea is the name of an Atlantic island off the coast of Portugal, possibly based on the Canary Islands, in Madeleine L'Engle's The Arm of the Starfish.
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