Europa 12 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• December 16, 1997 -- 12:05 UTC
• Altitude: 200 km
• 3662 times closer than Voyager 1
• 1022 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 6.3 km/second
• Latitude: 8 deg S
• Longitude: 225 deg W

Perijove

• November 16, 1997 -- 06:36 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 8.8 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 5.5 AU
• One Way Light Time: 46 minutes

• December 15-17, 1997

• December 17, 1997 - March 28, 1998

Science Highlights

• Features: Pwyll crater, Conamara Chaos
• Terrains: plateaus, dark lineas, mottled, wedges
• Search for hot spots and tenuous atmosphere
• Surface Composition Maps
• Satellite/Magnetosphere Interaction
• Gravity field measurement
• Closest Galileo flyby to any celestial body

Jupiter

• Upper atmosphere energy budget
• Longitudinal spectral scans

Other Targest

• Io: eclipse
• Ganymede: Gilgamesh basin
• Inner magnetosphere survey

Europa Flyby Geometry

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