Water vapor near the cloud tops of Venus from Venus Express/VIRTIS dayside data

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 561-569

  Cottini, V ^a,b   Ignatiev, N I ^a,c,d   Piccioni, G ^a   Drossart, P ^e   Grassi, D ^f   Markiewicz, W J ^d  

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^f INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Venus, atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855347492     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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