Morphology of the cloud tops as observed by the Venus Express Monitoring Camera

Icarus

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 682-701

  Titov, Dmitrij V ^a,b   Markiewicz, Wojciech J ^a   Ignatiev, Nikolay I ^a,c   Song, Li ^a   Limaye, Sanjay S ^d   Sanchez Lavega, Agustin ^e   Hesemann, Jonas ^a   Almeida, Miguel ^f   Roatsch, Thomas ^g   Matz, Klaus Dieter ^g   Scholten, Frank ^g   Crisp, David ^h   Esposito, Larry W ⁱ   Hviid, Stubbe F ^a   Jaumann, Ralf ^g   Keller, Horst U ^a   Moissl, Richard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud morphology; UV imaging; Venus; Venus monitoring camera

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855357200     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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