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ESA's Planetary Science Archive: Preserve and present reliable scientific data sets
De Marchi, G.; Besse, S.; Vallat, C. +15 more
The European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Science Archive (PSA) is undergoing a significant refactoring of all its components to improve the services provided to the scientific community and the public. The PSA supports ESA's missions exploring the Solar System by archiving scientific peer-reviewed observations as well as engineering data sets. Th…
Solar cycle variation of the venus magnetic barrier
Zhang, T. L.; Xiao, S. D.
Although there is no intrinsic magnetic field at Venus, the convected interplanetary magnetic field piles up to form an induced magnetosphere around the planetary ionosphere. Previous investigations show that the magnetic barrier, the part of the induced magnetosphere in the dayside inner magnetosheath, can act as an effective obstacle to the sola…
Description, accessibility and usage of SOIR/Venus Express atmospheric profiles of Venus distributed in VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access)
Vandaele, A. C.; Thomas, I. R.; Trompet, L. +9 more
Venus Express SOIR profiles of pressure, temperature and number densities of different constituents of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere of Venus are the only experimental data covering the 60 km to 220 km range of altitudes at the terminator of Venus. This unique dataset is now available in the open access VESPA infrastructure. This paper des…
Space weather at planet Venus during the forthcoming BepiColombo flybys
Odstrcil, D.; McKenna-Lawlor, S.; Jackson, B.
The BepiColombo (BC) Mission which will be launched in 2018, will include during its Cruise Phase two flybys of Venus and five Mercury flybys. It will then enter a one Earth year orbit about Mercury (with a possible one-year extension) during which two spacecraft, one provided by ESA (MPO) and one provided by JAXA (MMO), will perform both autonomo…