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Europa 16 Quick-Look Orbit Facts
Encounter Trajectory
Quick-Look Facts
Europa Encounter
- 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
Encounter Phase
Cruise Phase
Science Highlights
Europa
- 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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