Collection
Venus III
The Venus Express spacecraft, which was launched in November 2005 and ceased activity in December 2014, has brought about a new wealth of data on Venus’s atmosphere, surface, and space environment. Following the completion of this landmark mission, an overview of the current state of scientific understanding of Venus has been assembled into a single collection.
The ten papers in this collection, written by an international team of specialists, are the products of this effort. They review our knowledge of Venus’s interior structure, surface composition, and atmosphere in terms of thermal structure, dynamics, composition, chemistry, clouds, aeronomy, and interaction with the solar wind. Additionally, they identify the questions and measurements that remain open for study in ongoing and future research and exploration efforts. The resulting volume is primarily intended for students and researchers of planetary science.
This collection is a follow-up to the pioneering book Venus, published in 1983, and its successor volume Venus II, published in 1997, stood at their respective times as the most authoritative single-volume works available on the planet.
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Bruno Bézard
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 92195, Meudon, France
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Christopher T. Russell
Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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Takehiko Satoh
Department of Solar System Sciences, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210, Japan
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Suzanne E. Smrekar
Geophysics & Planetary Geosciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109, USA
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Colin F. Wilson
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU, UK
Articles (11 in this collection)
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Venus: The Atmosphere, Climate, Surface, Interior and Near-Space Environment of an Earth-Like Planet
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Venus Surface Composition Constrained by Observation and Experiment
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