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Clouds and Hazes of Venus
Titov, Dmitrij V.; Ignatiev, Nikolay I.; Wilson, Colin F. +2 more
More than three decades have passed since the publication of the last review of the Venus clouds and hazes. The paper published in 1983 in the Venus book summarized the discoveries and findings of the US Pioneer Venus and a series of Soviet Venera spacecraft (Esposito et al. in Venus, p. 484, 1983). Due to the emphasis on in-situ investigations fr…
Composition and Chemistry of the Neutral Atmosphere of Venus
Marcq, Emmanuel; Vandaele, Ann Carine; Parkinson, Christopher D. +1 more
This paper deals with the composition and chemical processes occurring in the neutral atmosphere of Venus. Since the last synthesis, observers as well as modellers have emphasised the spatial and temporal variability of minor species, going beyond a static and uniform picture that may have prevailed in the past. The outline of this paper acknowled…
Venus: The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment of an Earth-Like Planet
Head, James W.; Taylor, Fredric W.; Svedhem, Håkan
This is a review of current knowledge about Earth's nearest planetary neighbour and near twin, Venus. Such knowledge has recently been extended by the European Venus Express and the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around the planet; these missions and their achievements are concisely described in the first part of the review, along with a su…
Venus Interior Structure and Dynamics
Sotin, Christophe; Smrekar, Suzanne E.; Davaille, Anne
No two rocky bodies offer a better laboratory for exploring the conditions controlling interior dynamics than Venus and Earth. Their similarities in size, density, distance from the sun, and young surfaces would suggest comparable interior dynamics. Although the two planets exhibit some of the same processes, Venus lacks Earth's dominant process f…
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) Science Ground Segment (SGS)
Metcalfe, L.; Geiger, B.; Lim, T. +19 more
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) Science Ground Segment (SGS), comprised of payload Instrument Team, ESA and Russian operational centres, is responsible for planning the science operations of the TGO mission and for the generation and archiving of the scientific data products to levels meeting the scientific aims and criteria specified by the E…