Clouds and hazes of Venus

DV Titov, NI Ignatiev, K McGouldrick, V Wilquet… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
More than three decades have passed since the publication of the last review of the Venus
clouds and hazes. The paper published in 1983 in the Venus book summarized the …

Composition and chemistry of the neutral atmosphere of Venus

E Marcq, FP Mills, CD Parkinson, AC Vandaele - Space Science Reviews, 2018 - Springer
This paper deals with the composition and chemical processes occurring in the neutral
atmosphere of Venus. Since the last synthesis, observers as well as modellers have …

Water activity in Venus's uninhabitable clouds and other planetary atmospheres

JE Hallsworth, T Koop, TD Dallas, MP Zorzano… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The recent suggestion of phosphine in Venus's atmosphere has regenerated interest in the
idea of life in clouds. However, such analyses usually neglect the role of water activity, which …

Variations of sulphur dioxide at the cloud top of Venus's dynamic atmosphere

E Marcq, JL Bertaux, F Montmessin, D Belyaev - Nature geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Sulphur dioxide is a million times more abundant in the atmosphere of Venus than that of
Earth, possibly as a result of volcanism on Venus within the past billion years,. A tenfold …

Science objectives and performances of NOMAD, a spectrometer suite for the ExoMars TGO mission

AC Vandaele, E Neefs, R Drummond… - Planetary and Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
The NOMAD spectrometer suite on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will map the composition
and distribution of Mars׳ atmospheric trace species in unprecedented detail, fulfilling many …

Climatology of SO2 and UV absorber at Venus' cloud top from SPICAV-UV nadir dataset

E Marcq, KL Jessup, L Baggio, T Encrenaz, YJ Lee… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Following our previous work (Marcq et al., 2013, 2011), we have updated our forward
radiative transfer code and processed the whole SPICAV-UV/Venus Express nadir dataset …

Venus, the planet: introduction to the evolution of Earth's sister planet

JG O'Rourke, CF Wilson, ME Borrelli, PK Byrne… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Venus is the planet in the Solar System most similar to Earth in terms of size and (probably)
bulk composition. Until the mid-20th century, scientists thought that Venus was a verdant …

Acousto-optic tunable filter spectrometers in space missions

OI Korablev, DA Belyaev, YS Dobrolenskiy… - Applied …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Spectrometers employing acousto-optic tunable filters (AOTFs) rapidly gain popularity in
space, and in particular on interplanetary missions. They allow for reducing volume, mass …

HDO and H2O vertical distributions and isotopic ratio in the Venus mesosphere by Solar Occultation at Infrared spectrometer on board Venus Express

A Fedorova, O Korablev, AC Vandaele… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Vertical distributions of the molecular density and mixing ratios of H2O and HDO in the
Venus mesosphere have been obtained using Solar Occultation at Infrared (SOIR), a high …

Venus Express science planning

DV Titov, H Svedhem, D Koschny, R Hoofs… - Planetary and Space …, 2006 - Elsevier
Venus Express is the first European mission to the planet Venus. Its payload consists of
seven instruments and will investigate the atmosphere, the plasma environment, and the …