Jupiter Today: Jupiter Today | 15 December 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 813025554.77 km from the Sun.
    21384.43 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 891.02 km/h
        (9.05 km/h faster than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 921522598.75 km from the Earth.
    1552008.39 km closer to the Earth than yesterday
    Moving towards the Earth at a radial velocity of 64667.02 km/h
        (1129.54 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420005.98 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 420623.22 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 422085.95 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 423303.85 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 423384.19 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 664677.01 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 665396.82 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 667250.01 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 669847.48 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 672669.49 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1071159.60 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1071597.54 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1071985.98 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1072304.36 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1072533.04 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1873507.15 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1874490.65 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1875549.11 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1876666.19 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 4, 1877825.75 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 2139890.39 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 1936513.93 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 1718482.30 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 1481992.69 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 3, 1220933.13 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 0 hours 11 minutes UTC at a distance of 420005.29 km.
Io goes through an apojove at 21 hours 22 minutes UTC at a distance of 423515.53 km.

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Events:

Io Occultation reappears at 0 hours 22.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 18 hours 38.0 minutes
Io Transit begins at 19 hours 25.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 20 hours 48.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 21 hours 35.0 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: