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Ganymede 2 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• September 6, 1996 -- 19:00 UTC
• Altitude: 260.2 km
• 428 times closer than Voyager 1
• 227 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 8.0 km/second
• Latitude: 80 deg N
• Longitude: 123 deg W

Perijove

• September 7, 1996 -- 13:37 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 10.7 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 4.7 AU
• One Way Light Time: 39 minutes

• September 1 - 8, 1996

• September 8 - November 2, 1996

Science Highlights

• Ganyemede north Alfven wing crossing
• Jovian radio emissions
• First mini-tour of Jovian magnetosphere continues
• Remote Io torus
• Plasma sheet at 40 Rj

• Unique Ganymede north polar pass
• Europa low-phase global images
• Callisto, Io monitoring, Amalthea
• Ganymede Gravity Field

• Stratospheric Circulation
• Jupiter southern aurora
• Shoemaker-Levy 9 remnant material images

Ganymede Flyby Geometry