Europa 16 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• July 21, 1998 -- 05:07 UTC
• Altitude: 1837 km
• 399 times closer than Voyager 1
• 111 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 6.3 km/second
• Latitude: 26 deg S
• Longitude: 226 deg W

Perijove

• July 21, 1998 -- 00:19 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 8.8 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 4.4 AU
• One Way Light Time: 36 minutes

• July 20-22, 1998

• July 22, 1998 - September 25, 1998

Science Highlights

• Features: Angora linea, Thrace macula, Taliesen crater
• Terrains: dissected, wedges, near-terminator
• Day and Night Thermal Maps
• Surface Composition Maps
• Satellite/Magnetosphere Interaction
• Gravity field measurement

Jupiter

• Cloud structure, dynamics and waves
• Upper atmosphere energy budget
• Hot maps, longitudinal spectral scans

Other Targets

• Io: monitoring, torus
• Ganymede: composition map
• Inner magnetosphere survey

Europa Flyby Geometry

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