Europa Timeline

All times are SCET (Spacecraft Event Time) in PST (PST = UTC - 8 hours). Take a look at the Galileo Acronyms List for explanations of the acronyms used in this timeline.


EVENT                                       DATE      TIME (PST/SCET)

Io C/A (range = 702,000 km)                 19 Jul 1998  21:55
Start Encounter                                          22:00
Io monitoring (PPR)                         20 Jul 1998  04:30
Jupiter global (PPR)                                     07:18
Europa gravity field (RS)                                12:06
Jupiter hotmap (NIMS)                                    13:56
Jupiter C/A (range = 632,000 km)                         17:19
Callisto C/A (range = 1,250,000 km)                      20:56
Europa-Magnetosphere interaction (F&P)                   21:30
Europa C/A (range = 3,400 km)                            22:07
Europa Agenor linea (SSI)                                22:10
Europa wedges (SSI)                                      23:22
Europa surface compisition (NIMS/UVS)                    23:30
Europa darkside thermal map                              23:50
Ganymede C/A (range = 149,000)              21 Jul 1998  13:07
Europa global (SSI)                                      13:16
Ganymede global (NIMS/UVS)                               11:20
Jovian cloud dynamics (SSI)                              13:22
Io torus (UVS)                                           20:59
Start Cruise                                             14:47
OTM-51                                      22 Jul 1998    -
OTM-52                                      24 Jul 1998    -
OTM-53                                      23 Aug 1998    -
End Cruise                                  22 Sep 1998  21:00


* Closest approach distances are with respect to the center of the
target body.

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