Venus Monitoring Camera for Venus Express

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1701-1711

  Markiewicz, W J ^a   Titov, D V ^a,d   Ignatiev, N ^d   Keller, H U ^a   Crisp, D ^e   Limaye, S S ^g   Jaumann, R ^c   Moissl, R ^a   Thomas, N ⁱ   Esposito, L ^f   Watanabe, S ^h   Fiethe, B ^b   Behnke, T ^c   Szemerey, I ^a   Michalik, H ^b   Perplies, H ^a   Wedemeier, M ^a   Sebastian, I ^a   Boogaerts, W ^a   Hviid, S F ^a   Dierker, C ^b   Osterloh, B ^b   Boker W ^a   Koch, M ^b   Michaelis, H ^c   Belyaev, D ^d   Dannenberg, A ^a   Tschimmel, M ^a   Russo, P ^a   Roatsch, T ^c   Matz, K D ^c   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Clouds; Dynamics; Instrument; Venus

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MONITORING CAMERA; PLASMA ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRO-IMAGING PAYLOAD; THERMAL MAPPING;

PLANETARY LANDERS;

EID: 34748849189     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.004     Document Type: Article

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