Jupiter Today: Jupiter Today | 02 September 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 814878513.02 km from the Sun.
    14110.47 km closer to the Sun than yesterday
    Moving towards the Sun at a radial velocity of -587.94 km/h
        (-0.27 km/h slower than yesterday)

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 919817242.19 km from the Earth.
    1557022.26 km further from the Earth than yesterday
    Moving away the Earth at a radial velocity of 64875.93 km/h
        (984.91 km/h slower than yesterday)

Positions and Motion:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420001.79 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 420648.25 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 422127.72 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423332.06 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 423380.44 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 677145.68 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 676480.81 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 674771.93 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 672353.44 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 669684.36 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1070783.81 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1070211.76 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069654.57 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069140.20 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1068692.22 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871735.23 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1871011.85 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1870382.37 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1869860.66 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1869460.93 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 267830.45 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 706765.92 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 1037960.13 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 1319915.35 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Juno is in quadrant 2, 1571070.59 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 0 hours 6 minutes UTC at a distance of 420001.61 km.
Io goes through an apojove at 21 hours 13 minutes UTC at a distance of 423527.30 km.

Audio:

Events:

Io Transit begins at 7 hours 42.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 8 hours 33.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 9 hours 54.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 10 hours 43.0 minutes
Europa Transit begins at 15 hours 50.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit begins at 17 hours 35.0 minutes
Europa Transit ends at 18 hours 18.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit ends at 19 hours 55.0 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: