Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan

Masato Nakamura; Takeshi Imamura; Munetaka Ueno; Naomoto Iwagami; Takehiko Satoh; Shigeto Watanabe; Makoto Taguchi; Yukihiro Takahashi; Makoto Suzuki; Takumi Abe; George L. Hashimoto; Takeshi Sakanoi; Shoichi Okano; Yasumasa Kasaba; Jun Yoshida; Manabu Yamada; Nobuaki Ishii; Takahiro Yamada; Kazunori Uemizu; Tetsuya Fukuhara; Koh ichiro Oyama

doi:10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009

Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan

Masato Nakamura, Takeshi Imamura, Munetaka Ueno, Naomoto Iwagami, Takehiko Satoh, Shigeto Watanabe, Makoto Taguchi, Yukihiro Takahashi, Makoto Suzuki, Takumi Abe, George L. Hashimoto, Takeshi Sakanoi, Shoichi Okano, Yasumasa Kasaba, Jun Yoshida, Manabu Yamada, Nobuaki Ishii, Takahiro Yamada, Kazunori Uemizu, Tetsuya FukuharaKoh ichiro Oyama

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The Venus Climate Orbiter mission (PLANET-C), one of the future planetary missions of Japan, aims at understanding the atmospheric circulation of Venus. Meteorological information will be obtained by globally mapping clouds and minor constituents successively with four cameras at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, detecting lightning with a high-speed imager, and observing the vertical structure of the atmosphere with radio science technique. The equatorial elongated orbit with westward revolution fits the observation of the movement and temporal variation of the atmosphere which as a whole rotates westward. The systematic, continuous imaging observations will provide us with an unprecedented large data set of the Venusian atmospheric dynamics. Additional targets of the mission are the exploration of the ground surface and the observation of zodiacal light. The mission will complement the ESA's Venus Express, which also explores the Venusian environment with different approaches.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1831-1842
Number of pages	12
Journal	Planetary and Space Science
Volume	55
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009
Publication status	Published - 2007 Oct

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Space and Planetary Science

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Nakamura, M., Imamura, T., Ueno, M., Iwagami, N., Satoh, T., Watanabe, S., Taguchi, M., Takahashi, Y., Suzuki, M., Abe, T., Hashimoto, G. L., Sakanoi, T., Okano, S., Kasaba, Y., Yoshida, J., Yamada, M., Ishii, N., Yamada, T., Uemizu, K., ... Oyama, K. I. (2007). Planet-C: Venus Climate Orbiter mission of Japan. Planetary and Space Science, 55(12), 1831-1842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2007.01.009

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