Ganymede 8 Quick-Look Orbit Facts

Encounter Trajectory

Quick-Look Facts

• May 7, 1997 -- 15:57 UTC
• Altitude: 1596 km
• 70 times closer than Voyager 1
• 37 times closer than Voyager 2
• Speed: 8.6 km/second
• Latitude: 28 deg N
• Longitude: 274 deg W

Perijove

• May 8, 1997 -- 11:42 UTC
• Jupiter Range: 9.3 Jupiter Radii
• Earth Range: 5.0 AU
• One Way Light Time: 42 minutes

• May 4 - 11, 1997

• May 11 - June 22, 1997

Science Highlights

• Start of second mini-tour of Jovian magnetosphere
• Ganymede upstream wake crossing
• Plasma sheet/Jupiter aurora at 25 Rj

• Ganymede surface morphology: Osiris, Tiamat, Sulcus, etc.
• Callisto non-targeted encounter, South Pole
• Metis

• South Polar haze zone
• Jupiter northern and southern aurora, Io footprint

Ganymede Flyby Geometry

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