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In-flight performance and calibration of SPICAV SOIR onboard Venus Express

Montmessin, Franck; Bertaux, Jean-Loup; Korablev, Oleg +13 more

Solar occultation in the infrared, part of the Spectoscopy for Investigation of Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Venus (SPICAV) instrument onboard Venus Express, combines an echelle grating spectrometer with an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF). It performs solar occultation measurements in the IR region at high spectral resolution. The wave…