Jupiter Today: Jupiter Today | 08 November 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 813770486.42 km from the Sun.
    18759.63 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 781.65 km/h
        (4.63 km/h faster than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 959522320.47 km from the Earth.
    436866.19 km closer to the Earth than yesterday
    Moving towards the Earth at a radial velocity of 18202.76 km/h
        (1337.61 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420014.21 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420728.75 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 422213.90 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423366.63 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423340.84 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 677335.01 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 676584.03 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 674764.45 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 672228.95 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 669460.12 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068659.80 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1069154.24 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1069708.54 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1070290.34 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1070871.85 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871301.10 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870654.71 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870102.97 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1869652.08 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1869313.50 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 6937946.72 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 6985565.59 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 7031986.44 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 7077238.07 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 7121347.05 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an apojove at 20 hours 53 minutes UTC at a distance of 423524.21 km.

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Events:

Io Shadow Transit begins at 14 hours 39.0 minutes
Io Transit begins at 14 hours 52.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 16 hours 50.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 17 hours 3.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit begins at 18 hours 1.0 minutes
Ganymede Transit begins at 18 hours 48.0 minutes
Ganymede Shadow Transit ends at 19 hours 58.0 minutes
Ganymede Transit ends at 20 hours 58.0 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: