Jupiter Today: Jupiter Today | 11 December 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 813110377.03 km from the Sun.
    21059.28 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 877.47 km/h
        (0.18 km/h slower than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 927567556.39 km from the Earth.
    1442641.68 km closer to the Earth than yesterday
    Moving towards the Earth at a radial velocity of 60110.07 km/h
        (1158.41 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 422027.98 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 420584.27 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420016.90 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420757.65 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 422243.08 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 666715.06 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 665135.19 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 664713.56 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 665534.66 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 667433.70 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 1, 1070479.34 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1070040.70 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069612.26 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069211.45 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1068861.02 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1872174.47 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871396.58 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870728.66 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870169.47 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1869716.51 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 4420678.29 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 4310740.72 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 4197724.92 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 4081456.91 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 3961753.40 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 11 hours 34 minutes UTC at a distance of 420013.34 km.
Europa goes through an perijove at 11 hours 1 minutes UTC at a distance of 664696.67 km.

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Events:

Io Eclipse disappears at 8 hours 29.2 minutes
Io Occultation reappears at 11 hours 23.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit begins at 5 hours 39.0 minutes
Europa Transit begins at 7 hours 4.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit ends at 7 hours 56.0 minutes
Europa Transit ends at 9 hours 22.0 minutes
Ganymede Eclipse disappears at 0 hours 6.8 minutes
Ganymede Eclipse reappears at 2 hours 1.2 minutes
Ganymede Occultation disappears at 3 hours 2.0 minutes
Ganymede Occultation reappears at 4 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: