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Causes and Consequences of Magnetic Complexity Changes within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: A Statistical Study
Lugaz, Noé; Scolini, Camilla; Winslow, Réka M. +3 more
We present the first statistical analysis of complexity changes affecting the magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), with the aim of answering the questions: How frequently do ICMEs undergo magnetic complexity changes during propagation? What are the causes of such changes? Do the in situ properties of ICMEs differ de…
Multi-spacecraft Observations of the Evolution of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections between 0.3 and 2.2 au: Conjunctions with the Juno Spacecraft
Lugaz, Noé; Scolini, Camilla; Winslow, Réka M. +4 more
We present a catalog of 35 interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) observed by the Juno spacecraft and at least one other spacecraft during its cruise phase to Jupiter. We identify events observed by MESSENGER, Venus Express, Wind, and STEREO with magnetic features that can be matched unambiguously with those observed by Juno. A multi-spacec…
Parker Solar Probe Imaging of the Night Side of Venus
Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob; Vourlidas, Angelos; Stenborg, Guillermo +14 more
We present images of Venus from the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) telescope on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft, obtained during PSP's third and fourth flybys of Venus on 2020 July 11 and 2021 February 20, respectively. Thermal emission from the surface is observed on the night side, representing the shortest wavele…
A Simple Condensation Model for the H2SO4-H2O Gas-Cloud System on Venus
Shao, Wencheng D.; Zhang, Xi; Cui, Jun +2 more
The current Venus climate is largely regulated by globally covered concentrated sulfuric acid clouds from binary condensation of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and water (H2O). To understand this complicated H2SO4-H2O gas-cloud system, previous theoretical studies either adopted complicated …
A Revised Understanding of the Structure of the Venusian Magnetotail From a High-Altitude Intercept With a Tail Ray by Parker Solar Probe
Collinson, Glyn A.; Ramstad, Robin; Frahm, Rudy +5 more
One of the major discoveries of NASA's 1979-1991 Pioneer Venus Orbiter is that the nightside ionosphere becomes filamentary at high altitude, forming comet-like tail rays. Pioneer Venus Orbiter could not establish how much farther into the wake of Venus tail rays extend, nor understand how they form. Here we present plasma and fields data from the…
Validation and Interpretation of a Three-dimensional Configuration of a Magnetic Cloud Flux Rope
Qiu, Jiong; Hu, Qiang; Jian, Lan K. +3 more
One strong magnetic cloud (MC) with a magnetic field magnitude reaching ~40 nT at 1 au during 2012 June 16-17 is examined in association with a preexisting magnetic flux rope (MFR) identified on the Sun. The MC is characterized by a quasi-three-dimensional (3D) flux rope model based on in situ measurements from the Wind spacecraft. The contents of…
The volcanology of Idunn Mons, Venus: The complex evolution of a possible active volcano
Komatsu, Goro; López, Iván; D'Incecco, Piero +1 more
Idunn Mons is a shield volcano located in the Imdr Regio large igneous rise, a Venusian equivalent to a hotspot geologic province on Earth. Recent studies using emissivity data from ESA's Venus Express Mission, together with experimental laboratory studies on the alteration of volcanic materials on Venus conditions, suggest that Idunn Mons is a po…
The impact of turbulent vertical mixing in the Venus clouds on chemical tracers
Marcq, Emmanuel; Lefèvre, Franck; Lefèvre, Maxence
Venus' clouds host a convective layer between roughly 50 and 60 km that mixes heat, momentum, and chemical species. Observations and numerical modelling have helped to understand the complexity of this region. However, the impact on chemistry is still not known. Here, we use for the first time a three-dimensional convection-resolving model with pa…
Proton Temperature Anisotropies in the Venus Plasma Environment During Solar Minimum and Maximum
Zhang, Tielong; Stenberg Wieser, Gabriella; Futaana, Yoshifumi +4 more
The proton population in Venus' plasma environment is characterized during periods of solar minimum and maximum using data from a particle mass-energy spectrometer. Such characterizations at different levels of solar activity provides physical insight into solar-cycle-dependent plasma phenomena around the planet, for example mirror modes in the ma…
The Solar Wind Parker Spiral Angle Distributions and Variations at 1 au
Xu, Qi; Xu, Xiaojun; Wang, Jing +8 more
Using the data from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and Wind spacecraft, we statistically studied the Parker spiral angle (PSA) of the solar wind magnetic field from 1998 to 2019 at 1 au. The PSA occurrences over both a Carrington rotation (CR) and a year can be well fitted by a Gaussian distribution. However, large-scale magnetic structur…