Editing Metis (moon) (section)

== Discovery and observations ==
[[File:Metis ontdekking.gif|thumb|left|''Voyager 1'' discovery image of Metis on 4 March 1979, showing the moon's tiny silhouette against the backdrop of Jupiter's clouds]]

Metis was discovered in 1979 by [[Stephen P. Synnott]] in images taken by the ''[[Voyager 1]]'' probe and was [[provisional designation|provisionally designated]] as '''{{nowrap|S/1979 J 3}}'''.{{sfn|IAUC 3507}}{{sfn|Synnott|1981}} In 1983, it was officially named after the mythological [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]], a [[Titan (mythology)|Titaness]] who was the first wife of [[Zeus]] (the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] prototype for the [[Roman mythology|Roman god]] [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]]) who between her and Zeus bore a daughter [[Athena]].{{sfn|IAUC 3872}} The photographs taken by ''Voyager 1'' showed Metis only as a dot, and hence knowledge about Metis was very limited until the arrival of the [[Galileo spacecraft|''Galileo'' spacecraft]]. ''Galileo'' imaged almost all of the surface of Metis and put constraints on its composition by 1998.{{sfn|Thomas Burns et al.|1998}}

Although the ''[[Juno (spacecraft)|Juno]]'' orbiter, which arrived at Jupiter in 2016, has a camera called [[JunoCam]], it is almost entirely focused on observations of Jupiter itself. During close observations of Jupiter, it may capture some distant images of the innermost moons Metis and [[Adrastea (moon)|Adrastea]].<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AGUFM.P41B2066H|bibcode=2015AGUFM.P41B2066H|title=JunoCam: Science and Outreach Opportunities with Juno|last1=Hansen|first1=C. J.|last2=Orton|first2=G. S.|journal=AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts|year=2015|volume=2015|pages=P41B–2066}}</ref>