Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann nous illumina en ce 2009-05-30 14:48 -->
> High!
> 
> andrel wrote:
>> I think that if the sum lit jupiter I would expect it to light the 
>> moon also in some comparable way.
> 
> It is lit in a comparable way - but Amalthea's surface is very dark 
> (albedo 0.09)!
A piece of coal may have a larger albedo!
> 
>> And I would expect to be blinded at some point by the sun. 
> 
>  From Jupiter, the sun appears only one fifth as large as from Earth... 
> so at first, I even wondered whether it would show up at all - it's 
> hardly discernible from the background stars! Perhaps using Chris 
> Colefax' lens flare macros could help...
> 
> What about the light that comes off off jupiter, I
> assume you didn't use radiosity.
> 
> In fact I did! But, as I mentioned before, Amalthea is very dark...
> 
> See you in Khyberspace!
> 
> Yadgar

Amalthéa is so dark, that you'd make it brighter by painting it all over with 
your usual black paint. ;)
I think that Pluto's albedo is even lower...

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