Europa 14 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• March 29, 1998 -- 13:23 UTC
• Altitude: 1649 km
• 444 times closer than Voyager 1
• 124 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 6.5 km/second
• Latitude: 12 deg S
• Longitude: 228 deg W

Perijove

• March 29, 1998 -- 08:00 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 8.8 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 5.9 AU
• One Way Light Time: 49 minutes

• March 28-31, 1998

• March 31, 1998 - May 30, 1998

Science Highlights

• Features: Mannann'an crater, Tyre macula
• Terrains: dark spots, triple-bands, bright plains
• Day and Night Thermal Maps
• Surface Composition Maps
• Search for Tenuous Atmosphere
• Satellite/Mangnetosphere interaction
• Gravity field measurement

Jupiter

• North pole aurora
• Longitudinal spectral scans

Other Targets

• Io: full disk, n. and s. pole, eclipse, torus
• Ganymede: global coverage
• Callisto: surface composition map
• Inner magnetosphere survey

Europa Flyby Geometry

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