Jupiter Today | 21 May 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 815970123.86 km from the Sun.
    6663.87 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Accelerating towards the Sun at a radial velocity of 277.66 km/h (1.35 km/h faster than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 704114932.53 km from the Earth.
    1652885.80 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Accelerating away from the Earth at a radial velocity of 68870.24 km/h (1248.02 km/h faster than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420013.01 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420675.38 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 422145.65 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 423326.56 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 423354.81 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 664956.51 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 665465.96 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 667070.72 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Eastern Elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 669451.63 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 2, 672141.13 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069047.83 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069452.68 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1069898.35 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1070368.95 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 4, 1070846.48 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1889558.94 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1888411.73 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1887223.41 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1885998.79 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1884739.96 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an apojove at 21 hours 8 minutes UTC at a distance of 423509.54 km.
Europa goes through an perijove at 0 hours 27 minutes UTC at a distance of 664953.03 km.

Events:

Io Shadow Transit ends at 0 hours 33.0 minutes
Io Occultation disappears at 18 hours 39.0 minutes
Io Eclipse reappears at 21 hours 47.6 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