Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan |
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| Institution: | 1. Space Research Institute (IKI), Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117997 Moscow, Russia;2. LATMOS, CNRS/INSU - IPSL - Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie - Univ. Versailles Saint-Quentin, Université Paris-Saclay, 11 Boulevard d''Alembert F-78280 Guyancourt, France;3. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Dolgoprudny, Russia;1. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan;2. Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan;1. Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;2. Department of Earth Sciences, Dickinson College, 5 N. Orange Street, Carlisle, PA 17013, United States;3. School of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, Pontypridd CF37 1DL, Wales, United Kingdom;4. Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI 53201, United States |
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| Abstract: | The Venus Climate Orbiter mission (PLANET-C), one of the future planetary missions of Japan, aims at understanding the atmospheric circulation of Venus. Meteorological information will be obtained by globally mapping clouds and minor constituents successively with four cameras at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, detecting lightning with a high-speed imager, and observing the vertical structure of the atmosphere with radio science technique. The equatorial elongated orbit with westward revolution fits the observation of the movement and temporal variation of the atmosphere which as a whole rotates westward. The systematic, continuous imaging observations will provide us with an unprecedented large data set of the Venusian atmospheric dynamics. Additional targets of the mission are the exploration of the ground surface and the observation of zodiacal light. The mission will complement the ESA's Venus Express, which also explores the Venusian environment with different approaches. |
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