Callisto 9 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• June 25, 1997 -- 13:48 UTC
• Altitude: 415 km
• 298 times closer than Voyager 1
• 512 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 8.2 km/second
• Latitude: 2 deg N
• Longitude: 259 deg W

Perijove

• June 27, 1997 -- 11:52 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 10.8 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 4.3 AU
• One Way Light Time: 36 minutes

• June 22 - 29, 1997

• June 29 - September 14, 1997

Science Highlights

• Unique deep magnetotail passage (143 Rj - during cruise phase)
• Second mini-tour of Jovian magnetosphere
• Jupiter aurora

• Callisto Valhalla multi-ringed structure
• Ganymede non-targeted encounter
• Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, Thebe

• Great Red Spot
• Equatorial plume head
• Jupiter northern and southern aurora, Io footprint
• High solar phase angle

Callisto Flyby Geometry

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