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 (PDT/SCET)

Start Encounter                             16 Feb 97    16:00
OTM-20                                                   16:15
First Io monitoring observation (SSI)       17           13:43
Real-time Jupiter aurora obs. (UVS/EUV)     18           00:34
Jupiter auroral map (UVS)                                16:55
First belt-zone observation (SSI)                        18:31
Thebe imaging (SSI)                         19           15:01
Europa Terra Incognito obs. (NIMS)          20           04:03
Io C/A (401000km)                                        04:04
Europa Arigope Linea obs. (NIMS)                         08:05
Europa Alfven wing recording (F&P)                       08:36
Europa high resolution C/A obs. (PPR)                    09:03
Start Earth occultation by Europa
Europa C/A (2150 km)
Start Solar occultation by Europa                        09:04
End Earth occultation by Europa                          09:16
End Solar occultation by Europa                          09:17
Jupiter C/A (652000km)                                   12:53
Jupiter magnetic equator recording (F&P)                 13:06
Amalthea imaging (SSI)                                   13:55 
Europa global color map (SSI)                            17:23
Last belt-zone observation (NIMS)          21           02:04
Last Io monitoring observation (SSI)                     02:56
Ganymede C/A (318000 km)                                 08:26
Callisto C/A (279000 km)                    22           14:55
Start Playback                                           17:30
OTM-21                                      23           20:00
Science Turn (Solar occultation)            25           03:47
Start Solar occultation by Jupiter                       05:27
Jupiter rings observation (NIMS)                         07:33
Turn to return to Earth point                            16:44
End Solar occultation by Jupiter                         17:15
End Europa-6 real-time survey (F&P)                      19:00
Start Earth occultation by Jupiter          26           11:13
End Earth occultation by Jupter             27           00:48
OTM-22                                      13 Mar       17:15
Turn for attitude maintenance               17           09:10
Start Ganymede-7 real-time survey (F&P)     20           17:59
First Ganymede-7 approach OPNAV                          15:38
End Playback                                30           08:00


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