A dynamic upper atmosphere of Venus as revealed by VIRTIS on Venus Express

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7170, 2007, Pages 641-645

  Drossart, P ^a   Piccioni, G ^b   Gerard J C ^d   Lopez Valverde, M A ^e   Sanchez Lavega, A ^f   Zasova, L ^g   Hueso, R ^f   Taylor, F W ^h   Bezard B ^a   Adriani, A ^c   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   Coradini, A ^c   Di Lellis, A ^o   Encrenaz, T ^a   Erard, S ^a   Fonti, S ^m   Formisano, V ^c   Fouchet, T ^a   Garcia, R ^p   Haus, R ^j   Helbert, J ^j   Ignatiev, N I ^g   Irwin, P ^h   Langevin, Y ^l   Lebonnois, S ^q   Luz, D ^a,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 ^b   Tsang, C ^h   Ammannito, Eleonora ^c   Barbis, Alessandra ^x   Berlin, Rainer ^j   Bettanini, Carlo ⁱ   Boccaccini, Angelo ^c   Bonnello, Guillaume ^l   Bouyé, Marc ^a   Capaccioni, Fabrizio ^y   Cardesin, Alejandro ^y   Carraro, Francesco ^z   Cherubini, Giovanni ^x   Cosi, Massimo ^x   Dami, Michele ^x   De Nino, Maurizio ^z   Del Vento, Davide ^c   Di Giampietro, Marco ^x   Donati, Alessandro ^x   Dupuis, Olivier ^a   Espinasse, Sylvie ^y   Fabbri, Anna ^x   Fave, Agnès ^a   Ficai Veltroni, Iacopo ^x   Filacchione, Gianrico ^y   Garceran, Katia ^a   Ghomchi, Yamina ^a   Giustizi, Maurizio ^x   Gondet, Brigitte ^l   Hello, Yann ^a   Henry, Florence ^a   Hofer, Stefan ^aa   Huntzinger, Gerard ^a   Kachlicki, Juergen ^j   Knoll, René ^a   Kouach, Driss ^a   Mazzoni, Alessandro ^x   Melchiorri, Riccardo ^a   Mondello, Giuseppe ^x   Monti, Francesco ^z   Neumann, Christian ^aa   Nuccilli, Fabrizio ^b   Parisot, Jérôme ^a   Pasqui, Claudio ^x   Perferi, Stefano ^x   Peter, Gisbert ^j   Piacentino, Alain ^a   Pompei, Carlo ^x   Réess, Jean Michel ^a   Rivet, Jean Pierre ^a   Romano, Antonio ^x   Russ, Natalie ^j   Santoni, Massimo ^x   Scarpelli, Adelmo ^x   Sémery, Alain ^a   Soufflot, Alain ^l   Stefanovitch, Douchane ^a   Suetta, Enrico ^x   Tarchi, Fabio ^x   Tonetti, Nazzareno ^x   Tosi, Federico ^b   Ulmer, Bernd ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^c INAF   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

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

^g Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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 CNRS   (France)

^q SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^s Tapada da Ajuda   (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

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VENUS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ATOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETER; THERMODYNAMICS; VISIBLE AND INFRARED THERMAL IMAGING SPECTROMETER;

EID: 36749095147     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06140     Document Type: Article

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