The structure of Venus' middle atmosphere and ionosphere.

Abstract:

:The atmosphere and ionosphere of Venus have been studied in the past by spacecraft with remote sensing or in situ techniques. These early missions, however, have left us with questions about, for example, the atmospheric structure in the transition region from the upper troposphere to the lower mesosphere (50-90 km) and the remarkably variable structure of the ionosphere. Observations become increasingly difficult within and below the global cloud deck (<50 km altitude), where strong absorption greatly limits the available investigative spectrum to a few infrared windows and the radio range. Here we report radio-sounding results from the first Venus Express Radio Science (VeRa) occultation season. We determine the fine structure in temperatures at upper cloud-deck altitudes, detect a distinct day-night temperature difference in the southern middle atmosphere, and track day-to-day changes in Venus' ionosphere.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Pätzold M,Häusler B,Bird MK,Tellmann S,Mattei R,Asmar SW,Dehant V,Eidel W,Imamura T,Simpson RA,Tyler GL

doi

10.1038/nature06239

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-11-29 00:00:00

pages

657-60

issue

7170

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

nature06239

journal_volume

450

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