HHSMT observations of the Venusian mesospheric temperature, winds, and CO abundance around the MESSENGER flyby

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 1688-1695

  Rengel, Miriam ^a   Hartogh, Paul ^a   Jarchow, Christopher ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Middle atmosphere; Planets and satellites; Submillimeter; Venus

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERES; MESOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; PLANETS AND SATELLITES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SECOND MESSENGERS; SUB MILLIMETERS; SUBMILLIMETER; VENUS; VENUS EXPRESS MISSIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 55149102184     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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