Vertical profiling of SO 2 and SO above Venus' clouds by SPICAV/SOIR solar occultations

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 740-751

  Belyaev, Denis A ^a,b   Montmessin, Franck ^a   Bertaux, Jean Loup ^a   Mahieux, Arnaud ^c   Fedorova, Anna A ^b   Korablev, Oleg I ^b   Marcq, Emmanuel ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^d   Zhang, Xi ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photochemistry; Spectroscopy; Venus; Venus, Atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855354929     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.09.025     Document Type: Article

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