Europa 17 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• September 26, 1998 -- 03:54 UTC
• Altitude: 3582 km
• 204 times closer than Voyager 1
• 57 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 6.1 km/second
• Latitude: 43 deg S
• Longitude: 139 deg W

Perijove

• September 26, 1998 -- 08:25 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 8.9 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: .40 AU
• One Way Light Time: 33 minutes

• September 25-28, 1998

• September 28, 1998 - November 21, 1998

Science Highlights

• Features: Thynia linea, south pole
• Terrains: strike-slip faults, near-terminator
• Day and Night Thermal Maps
• Surface Composition Maps
• Tenuous atmosphere
• Gravity field measurement

Jupiter

• Ring observations
• South pole aurora
• Longitudinal spectral scans

Other Targets

• Io: Torus
• Inner magnetosphere survey

Europa Flyby Geometry

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