Europa 11 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• November 6, 1997 -- 20:32 UTC
• Altitude: 2042 km
• 359 times closer than Voyager 1
• 100 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 5.7 km/second
• Latitude: 25 deg N
• Longitude: 141 deg W

Perijove

• November 7, 1997 -- 00:42 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 9.1 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 5.0 AU
• One Way Light Time: 41 minutes

• November 2 - 9, 1997

• November 9 - December 15, 1997

Science Highlights

• Europa wake and Jovian magnetic equator crossings
• End of second magnetosphere survey "mini-tour"

• Europa Pwyll, Mannann'an wedge and bright plains
• Mass properties of Europa
• Thebe, Metis, Amalthea and Adrastea

• Brown barge and aurora campaigns
• Global equatorial hydrogen map
• High solar phase lightning search

Europa Flyby Geometry

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