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Carbon dioxide opacity of the Venus' atmosphere

Piccioni, Giuseppe; Adriani, Alberto; Grassi, Davide +2 more

Venus' atmosphere consists of about 95% of carbon dioxide, which accounts for most of the absorption of the radiation emitted by its hot surface. The large densities and high temperatures of Venus' atmosphere make the absorption much more complex than for low density atmospheres such as Earth or Mars. Available experimental data are at present ins…

The structure of the Venusian current sheet

Malova, H. V.; Petrukovich, A. A.; Zelenyi, L. M. +7 more

We investigate the current sheet (CS) of the Venusian magnetotail using the data collected by the Venus Express mission in 2006-2010. We have found that the observed profiles of the main magnetic field component B_x have single-scale or double-scale structures. For single-scale CSs the B_x profile is well approximated by the Ha…