Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1831-1842

  Nakamura, Masato ^a,c,g   Imamura, Takeshi ^a,c,g   Ueno, Munetaka ^b,c,g   Iwagami, Naomoto ^b,c,g   Satoh, Takehiko ^a,c,g   Watanabe, Shigeto ^c,d,g   Taguchi, Makoto ^c,e,g   Takahashi, Yukihiro ^c,f,g   Suzuki, Makoto ^a,c,g   Abe, Takumi ^a,c,g   Hashimoto, George L ^c,g,h   Sakanoi, Takeshi ^c,f,g   Okano, Shoichi ^c,f,g   Kasaba, Yasumasa ^a,c,g   Yoshida, Jun ^c,f,g   Yamada, Manabu ^c,d,g   Ishii, Nobuaki ^a,c,g   Yamada, Takahiro ^a,c,g   Uemizu, Kazunori ^a,c,g   Fukuhara, Tetsuya ^a,c,g   Oyama, Koh ichiro ^a,c,g   more..

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^h KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Exploration; Venus

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; ORBITS; WAVELENGTH;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; PLANETARY MISSIONS; VENUS; ZODIACAL LIGHT;

INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT;

EID: 34548204458     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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