South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 637-640

  Piccioni, G ^a   Drossart, P ^d   Sanchez Lavega, A ^e   Hueso, R ^e   Taylor, F W ^f   Wilson, C F ^f   Grassi, D ^d   Zasova, L ^g   Moriconi, M ^b   Adriani, A ^c   Lebonnois, S ^h   Coradini, A ^c   Bezard B ^d   Angrilli, F ⁱ   Arnold, G ^j   Baines, K H ^k   Bellucci, G ^c   Benkhoff, J ^j   Bibring, J P ^l   Blanco, A ^m   Blecka, M I ⁿ   Carlson, R W ^k   Di Lellis, A ^o   Encrenaz, T ^d   Erard, S ^d   Fonti, S ^m   Formisano, V ^c   Fouchet, T ^d   Garcia, R ^p   Haus, R ^j   Helbert, J ^j   Ignatiev, N I ^g   Irwin, P G J ^f   Langevin, Y ^l   Lopez Valverde, M A ^q   Luz, D ^d,s   Marinangeli, L ^r   Orofino, V ^m   Rodin, A V ^g   Roos Serote, M C ^s   Saggin, B ^t   Stam, D M ^u   Titov, D ^v   Visconti, G ^w   Zambelli, M ^a   Ammannito, Eleonora ^c   Barbis, Alessandra ^x   Berlin, Rainer ^j   Bettanini, Carlo ⁱ   Boccaccini, Angelo ^c   Bonnello, Guillaume ^l   Bouye, Marc ^d   Capaccioni, Fabrizio ^a   Cardesin Moinelo, Alejandro ^a   Carraro, Francesco ^y   Cherubini, Giovanni ^x   Cosi, Massimo ^x   Dami, Michele ^x   De Nino, Maurizio ^z   Del Vento, Davide ^a   Di Giampietro, Marco ^x   Donati, Alessandro ^x   Dupuis, Olivier ^d   Espinasse, Sylvie ^y   Fabbri, Anna ^x   Fave, Agnes ^d   Veltroni, Iacopo Ficai ^x   Filacchione, Gianrico ^a   Garceran, Katia ^d   Ghomchi, Yamina ^d   Giustini, Maurizio ^x   Gondet, Brigitte ^l   Hello, Yann ^d   Henry, Florence ^d   Hofer, Stefan ^aa   Huntzinger, Gerard ^d   Kachlicki, Juergen ^j   Knoll, René ^d   Driss, Kouach ^d   Mazzoni, Alessandro ^x   Melchiorri, Riccardo ^d   Mondello, Giuseppe ^x   Monti, Francesco ^z   Neumann, Christian ^aa   Nuccilli, Fabrizio ^c   Parisot, Jerome ^d   Pasqui, Claudio ^x   Perferi, Stefano ^x   Peter, Gisbert ^j   Piacentino, Alain ^d   Pompei, Carlo ^x   Reess, Jean Michel ^d   Rivet, Jean Pierre ^d   Romano, Antonio ^x   Russ, Natalie ^j   Santoni, Massimo ^x   Scarpelli, Adelmo ^x   Semery, Alain ^d   Soufflot, Alain ^l   Stefanovitch, Douchane ^d   Suetta, Enrico ^x   Tarchi, Fabio ^x   Tonetti, Nazzareno ^x   Tosi, Federico ^c   Ulmer, Bernd ^j   more..

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INAF   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^h LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^j GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

ⁿ Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^o AMDLSPACE   (Italy)

^p INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^q INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^s UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^t POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^v MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^w UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^x GALILEO AVIONICA   (Italy)

^y ASI   (Italy)

^z Techno System Developments   (Italy)

^aa OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFURIC ACID;

CLOUD; POLAR REGION; POLAR VORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY; VENUS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLOUD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 36749055721     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06209     Document Type: Article

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