Jupiter Today | 19 May 2017 | Past 700 Million Miles

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 815983419.28 km from the Sun.
    6472.52 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Accelerating towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 269.73 km/h (1.73 km/h slower than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 700839108.21 km from the Earth.
    1561361.83 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Accelerating away from the Earth at a radial velocity of 66356.04 km/h (1299.30 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420614.36 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420022.20 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420746.31 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 422228.68 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 423361.55 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 676590.95 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 677189.28 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 676591.07 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 674928.93 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 672527.48 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1069002.94 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068654.84 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068392.84 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068233.59 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068186.68 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1895856.52 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1895404.07 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1894856.16 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1894212.38 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1893468.90 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 5 hours 41 minutes UTC at a distance of 420020.17 km.
Europa goes through an apojove at 6 hours 0 minutes UTC at a distance of 677189.28 km.
Ganymede goes through an perijove at 23 hours 27 minutes UTC at a distance of 1068186.20 km.

Events:

Io Transit begins at 3 hours 2.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 3 hours 54.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 5 hours 13.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 6 hours 5.0 minutes
Europa Transit begins at 0 hours 29.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit begins at 2 hours 17.0 minutes
Europa Transit ends at 2 hours 56.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit ends at 4 hours 43.0 minutes

Earth direction along green line to the left

Sun direction along blue line to the left

Orbits as seen from above.  Moons orbit counter-clockwise.  Black dots represent location of respective moon at 0h, 6h, 12h, 18h, and 24h UTC.

Purple path: Io
Blue path: Europa
Yellow path: Ganymede
Red path: Callisto

Orbital Ribbons: These are the spacial and temporal connections between the four Jovian Moons.  Black dot indicates location of Jupiter