Venus evolution through time: key science questions, selected mission concepts and future investigations

T Widemann, SE Smrekar, JB Garvin… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
In this work we discuss various selected mission concepts addressing Venus evolution
through time. More specifically, we address investigations and payload instrument concepts …

The atmospheric dynamics of Venus

A Sánchez-Lavega, S Lebonnois, T Imamura… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
We review our current knowledge of the atmospheric dynamics of Venus prior to the
Akatsuki mission, in the altitude range from the surface to approximately the cloud tops …

[图书][B] Zonal jets: Phenomenology, genesis, and physics

B Galperin, PL Read - 2019 - books.google.com
In recent decades, great progress has been made in our understanding of zonal jets across
many subjects-atmospheric science, oceanography, planetary science, geophysical fluid …

Cloud level winds from the Venus Express Monitoring Camera imaging

IV Khatuntsev, MV Patsaeva, DV Titov, NI Ignatiev… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
Six years of continuous monitoring of Venus by European Space Agency's Venus Express
orbiter provides an opportunity to study dynamics of the atmosphere our neighbor planet …

How waves and turbulence maintain the super-rotation of Venus' atmosphere

T Horinouchi, YY Hayashi, S Watanabe, M Yamada… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Venus has a thick atmosphere that rotates 60 times as fast as the surface, a phenomenon
known as super-rotation. We use data obtained from the orbiting Akatsuki spacecraft to …

Sulfuric acid vapor and sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus as observed by the Venus Express radio science experiment VeRa

J Oschlisniok, B Häusler, M Pätzold, S Tellmann… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Venus Express radio science experiment VeRa provided more than 900
neutral atmospheric profiles between the years 2006 and 2014. About 800 of these could be …

Long‐term variation in the cloud‐tracked zonal velocities at the cloud top of Venus deduced from Venus Express VMC images

T Kouyama, T Imamura, M Nakamura… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We present observational evidence of the variation of the cloud‐tracked zonal velocity by~
20 ms–1 with a timescale of a few hundred days in the southern low latitude region based …

Three‐dimensional structures of thermal tides simulated by a Venus GCM

M Takagi, N Sugimoto, H Ando… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal tides in the Venus atmosphere are investigated by using a GCM named as AFES‐
Venus. The three‐dimensional structures of wind and temperature associated with the …

Venus cloud-tracked and Doppler velocimetry winds from CFHT/ESPaDOnS and Venus Express/VIRTIS in April 2014

P Machado, T Widemann, J Peralta, R Goncalves… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present new coordinated observations and measurements of the wind amplitude and its
variability at Venus cloud-tops based on the two complementary techniques of Ground …

Six years of Venus winds at the upper cloud level from UV, visible and near infrared observations from VIRTIS on Venus Express

R Hueso, J Peralta, I Garate-Lopez, TV Bandos… - Planetary and Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Venus Express mission has provided a long-term monitoring of Venus
atmosphere including the morphology and motions of its upper clouds. Several works have …