observing venus from a balloon platform
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Observing Venus From a Balloon Platform
Ohio Aerospace InstituteCleveland, Ohio
Venus Investigations• Venus volcanism from emissivity mapping
at near infrared wavelengths, following Smrekar et al.
• Detection of optical signature of lightning• Investigation of the night side circulation of
the lower and middle cloud level• Investigation of the day side circulation of
Venus• Detection of airglow
Observations
• Imaging cube 1 – 2.5 µ @ ~ 0.1 arcsec• Multispectral imaging 270 – 1300 nm with
~ 50 nm resolution at selected ranges• Lightning Detection @ 773 nm•
Hot spots associated with topography and high emmmissivity, recent volcanism
Global view of the hemispheric Venus vortex on the day and night side from VIRTIS during insertion orbit
New result from Venus Express VMC Camera
images: Asymmetric structure
Discovery of O3, OH, Detection of CO2 isotopologues: 12C16O16O, 12C16O17O, 12C16O18O
Continued detection of “whistlers”
VIRTIS Magellan SAR
VMC 1000 nm image composiite view of surface
Recent…. MESSENGER Fly-by• Messenger Flyby – 2006 & 2007 – tested instruments for
Mercury
Filtered MDIS Image (558 nm)
MDIS 630 nm
Visible and Infrared Observations of Venus
Test Fired the Laser Altimeter from > 200 km at Venus (1032 nm)