Venus stratospheric sounder: First in situ measurements in upper cloud region

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 52, Issue 2-6, 2003, Pages 159-164

  Kerzhanovich, Viktor V ^a   Crisp, Dave ^a   Preston, Robert A ^a   Esposito, Larry W ^b   Ingersoll, Andrew P ^c   Young, Richard E ^d   Blamont, Jacques E ^e   Linkin, Viacheslav V ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e CNES   (France)

^f Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CLOUDS; COMPOSITION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTERFEROMETRY; NEPHELOMETERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PLANETS; SENSORS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 0037244228     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(02)00152-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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