Europa 18 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• November 22, 1998 -- 11:47 UTC
• Altitude: 2281 km
• 321 times closer than Voyager 1
• 90 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 6.0 km/second
• Latitude: 42 deg N
• Longitude: 220 deg W

Perijove

• November 22, 1998 -- 07:34 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 8.9 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 4.5 AU
• One Way Light Time: 39 minutes

• November 22-23, 1998

• November 23, 1998 - January 31, 1999

Science Highlights

• Features: Radamanthys, south pole plains, north pole pits and plateaus
• Terrains: massifs, bright and dark plains
• Global and regional polarimetry maps
• Surface composition maps
• Tenuous atmosphere
• Gravity field measurement

Jupiter

• Upper atmosphere energy budget
• Longitudinal spectral scans

Other Targets

• Io: surface monitoring, polarimetry, torus
• Ganymede: polarimetry
• Inner magnetosphere survey including dark region

Europa Flyby Geometry

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