Venus evolution through time: key science questions, selected mission concepts and future investigations

T Widemann, SE Smrekar, JB Garvin… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
In this work we discuss various selected mission concepts addressing Venus evolution
through time. More specifically, we address investigations and payload instrument concepts …

Composition and chemistry of the neutral atmosphere of Venus

E Marcq, FP Mills, CD Parkinson, AC Vandaele - Space Science Reviews, 2018 - Springer
This paper deals with the composition and chemical processes occurring in the neutral
atmosphere of Venus. Since the last synthesis, observers as well as modellers have …

Variations of sulphur dioxide at the cloud top of Venus's dynamic atmosphere

E Marcq, JL Bertaux, F Montmessin, D Belyaev - Nature geoscience, 2013 - nature.com
Sulphur dioxide is a million times more abundant in the atmosphere of Venus than that of
Earth, possibly as a result of volcanism on Venus within the past billion years,. A tenfold …

The 2009 edition of the GEISA spectroscopic database

N Jacquinet-Husson, L Crepeau, R Armante… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2011 - Elsevier
The updated 2009 edition of the spectroscopic database GEISA (Gestion et Etude des
Informations Spectroscopiques Atmosphériques; Management and Study of Atmospheric …

Claimed detection of PH3 in the clouds of Venus is consistent with mesospheric SO2

AP Lincowski, VS Meadows, D Crisp… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The observation of a 266.94 GHz feature in the Venus spectrum has been attributed to
phosphine (PH 3) in the Venus clouds, suggesting unexpected geological, chemical, or …

Active volcanism on Venus in the Ganiki Chasma rift zone

EV Shalygin, WJ Markiewicz… - Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Venus is known to have been volcanically resurfaced in the last third of solar system history
and to have undergone a significant decrease in volcanic activity a few hundred million …

A photochemical model for the Venus atmosphere at 47–112 km

VA Krasnopolsky - Icarus, 2012 - Elsevier
The model is intended to respond to the recent findings in the Venus atmosphere from the
Venus Express and ground-based submillimeter and infrared observations. It extends down …

Climatology of SO2 and UV absorber at Venus' cloud top from SPICAV-UV nadir dataset

E Marcq, KL Jessup, L Baggio, T Encrenaz, YJ Lee… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Following our previous work (Marcq et al., 2013, 2011), we have updated our forward
radiative transfer code and processed the whole SPICAV-UV/Venus Express nadir dataset …

Altimetry of the Venus cloud tops from the Venus Express observations

NI Ignatiev, DV Titov, G Piccioni… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous observations of Venus by Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer
and Venus Monitoring Camera onboard the Venus Express spacecraft are used to map the …

Venus, an astrobiology target

SS Limaye, R Mogul, KH Baines, MA Bullock… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
We present a case for the exploration of Venus as an astrobiology target—(1) investigations
focused on the likelihood that liquid water existed on the surface in the past, leading to the …