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Ganymede 1 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• Ganymede Flyby Navigation Results
• June 27, 1996 06:29 UTC
• Altitude: 835 km
• 133 times closer than Voyager 1
• 70 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 7.8 km/second
• Latitude: 30.62 deg N
• Longitude: 112 deg W

Perijove

• June 28, 1996 00:31 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 11.0 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 4.2 AU
• One Way Light Time: 35 minutes

• June 23-30, 1996

• June 30 - September 1, 1996

Science Highlights

• Ganyemede wake crossing
• Start of first "mini-tour" of Jovian magnetosphere
• Remote Io torus observations
• Plasma sheet crossing at 25 Rj

• Ganymede and Europa geology and atmospheric properties
• Io monitoring, distant Callisto observations
• Mass properties of Ganymede

• Great Red Spot
• Jupiter northern and southern aurora, Io footprint

Ganymede Flyby Geometry