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Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006dps....38.1607m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #16.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.511
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The Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) is a 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 17.5o. The VMC takes images of Venus in four narrow band filters from UV to near-IR all sharing one CCD. The spatial resolution varies from 0.2 km to 45 km per pixel, depending on the distance from the planet. The full disc of Venus is in the VMC FOV near the apocentre of the orbit. The VMC complements the 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 nightglow 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 provides imaging context for the whole mission. The paper will present the first results of VMC observations including images and movies in UV, limb images, and night side observations in the near-IR.
Crisp Dave
Esposito Larry
Hviid Stubbe
Ignatiev Nikolai
Jaumann Ralf
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