Callisto 3 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• November 4, 1996 -- 13:34 UTC
• Altitude: 1118 km
• 112 times closer than Voyager 1
• 191 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 8.0 km/second
• Latitude: 13 deg N
• Longitude: 78 deg W

Perijove

• November 6, 1996 -- 13:31 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 9.2 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 5.6 AU
• One Way Light Time: 46 minutes

• November 2 - 11, 1996

• November 11 - December 15, 1996

Science Highlights

• Completion of first mini-tour of Jovian magnetosphere
• Callisto wake and Alfven wing crossings
• Jupiter aurora
• Remote Io torus

• Callisto Asgard Basin
• Europa non-targeted encounter - volcanism obs.
• Closest Io approach of Tour
• Jupiter rings, Amalthea, Thebe
• Mass properties of Callisto

• Belt/Zone boundary observations
• Jupiter northern aurora
• Jupiter atmosphere during Solar occultation (lightning)

Callisto Flyby Geometry

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