Venus wind map at cloud top level with the MTR/THEMIS visible spectrometer, I: Instrumental performance and first results

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1335-1343

  Gaulme, Patrick ^a   Schmider, François Xavier ^b   Grec, Catherine ^b   López Ariste, Arturo ^c   Widemann, Thomas ^a   Gelly, Bernard ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c Themis SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clouds; Spectrometry; Venus; Visible; Wind

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAPHY; SODIUM; SPECTROMETRY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CLOUDS; VENUS; VISIBLE; VISIBLE RANGE; WIND;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 51249120696     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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