The composition and vertical structure of the lower cloud deck on Venus

Details The composition and vertical structure of the lower cloud deck on Venus The composition and vertical structure of the lower cloud deck on Venus

Aug 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982icar...51..334c&link_type=abstract

(International Conference on the Venus Environment, Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 1-6, 1981.) Icarus, vol. 51, Aug. 1982, p. 334-357.

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Atmospheric Composition, Venus Clouds, Vertical Distribution, Absorptivity, Atmospheric Models, Mixing, Molecular Gases, Permittivity, Pioneer Venus Spacecraft, Radio Occultation

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Excluding the insertion of a probe into the lower Venus atmosphere, the only means of examining the atmospheric properties below the upper cloud layer are by passive or active radio techniques. Particularly, in a radio occultation experiment, the amplitude and Doppler data of a signal which has been refracted by the dense Venus atmosphere provide temperature, pressure, atmospheric density, cloud mass content, and some information about the cloud composition. The Venus orbiting spacecraft Pioneer Venus has provided radio occultation data for more than two years. The present investigation has the primary goal to use the absorption coefficient profiles derived from the radio occultation experiment to determine the mass content and composition of the Venusian lower deck. Attention is given to an experiment description, liquid content calculations, the mass content equation, the subtraction of gaseous absorbers, dielectric constant measurements, the concentration profile, the spherical shell model, and mass content profiles for all orbits.

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