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AN: P23E-03 [Abstracts]
TI: Venus Monitoring Camera for Venus Express
AU: * Markiewicz, W J
EM: markiewicz@linmpi.mpg.de
AF: MPS, Max-Planck_Str. 2, Katlenburg-Lindau, 37191
Germany
AU: Titov, D V
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AF: MPS, Max-Planck_Str. 2, Katlenburg-Lindau, 37191
Germany
AU: Keller, H U
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AF: MPS, Max-Planck_Str. 2, Katlenburg-Lindau, 37191
Germany
AU: Jaumann, R
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AF: DLR, Rutherfordstrasse 2, Berlin, 12489
Germany
AU: Michalik, H
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AF: IDA, Hans-Sommer-Str. 66, Braunschweig, 38106
Germany
AU: Crisp, D
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AF: JPL, 4800 Oak Grove Road, Pasadena, CA 91109
United States
AU: Esposito, L
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AF: LASP, University of Colarado, Boulder, CO 80303-0392
United States
AU: Limaye, S S
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AF: Uni. of Wisconsin, 1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706-1695
United States
AU: Watanabe, S
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AF: Hokaido Uni., North 10, west 8, Sapporo, 060-0810
Japan
AU: Ignatiev, N
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AF: IKI, Profsoyuznaya Ulitsa 84/32, Moscow, 117997
Russian Federation
AU: Thomas, N
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AF: Uni. Bern, Sidlerstr. 5, Bern, 3012
Switzerland
AB:
The Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) is part of the Venus Express payload. One of the main goals of the Venus Express mission is
to study the dynamics of the Venus atmosphere. This objective requires global imaging of the planet. The VMC is designed to
meet this goal having a relatively wide field of view of 17.5°. The VMC will take images of Venus in four narrow band
filters from UV to near-IR all sharing one CCD. The spatial resolution will be 0.2 km to 45 km per pixel, depending on the
distance from the planet. The full disc of Venus will be in the VMC FOV near the apocentre of the orbit. The VMC will
complement other instruments of Venus Express by, 1) tracking cloud motions at ~70 km (cloud tops) and at ~50 km
(main cloud layer) altitude; 2) mapping O2 night-glow and its variability 3) mapping the night side thermal emission from
the surface and studying of the lapse rate and H2O content in the lower 6-10 km. In addition the VMC will provide imaging
context for the whole mission and its movies of Venus atmosphere will be of significant interest for science as well as for
the public outreach programme.
DE: 5405 Atmospheres (0343, 1060)
DE: 5408 Aurorae and airglow
DE: 5464 Remote sensing
DE: 5480 Volcanism (6063, 8148, 8450)
DE: 5494 Instruments and techniques
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005