Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
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European Planetary Science Congress 2008, Proceedings of the conference held 21-25 September, 2008 in Münster, Germany. Online a
Physics
Scientific paper
The Venus Monitoring Camera on Venus Express has been returning images of Venus in four filters since April 2006 on almost every orbit. These images portray the southern hemisphere of Venus at spatial resolutions ranging from ~ 50 km per pixel to better than ~ 10 km per pixel depending on when the planet was imaged from orbit. Images covering a substantial portion of the planet and separated by ~ 45 min to one hour have been mapped into rectilinear projection to enable use of digital tracking technique for the measurement of cloud motions on an orbit by orbit basis. The aggregate results are in good agreement with visual tracking results as well as from the previous missions [1] and show evidence of temporal variations, large scale waves and solar thermal tides in low and mid latitudes. The digital tracking results for the meridional component confirm the poleward flow increasing from low latitudes to mid-latitudes and then showing a tendency to weaken. However, the confidence in high latitude measurements is lower due to the peculiar nature of the cloud morphology that is generally streaky and quite different from the low latitudes. The meridional profile of the average zonal wind at higher latitudes is of considerable interest. At high and polar latitudes, a vortex organization is evident in the data consistently, with the core region centered over the pole. The images show variability in structure of the ultraviolet signature of the "S" shaped feature seen in the VIRTIS data on the capture orbit [2]. However, the cloud morphologies seen poleward of ~ 50 degrees latitude also makes digital tracking less reliable due to absence of discrete features at the spatial resolution of the VMC images acquired in the apoapsis portion of the Venus Express orbit. It is expected that images obtained closer to the planet will enable a determination of the zonal wind profile with better confidence which will be useful in elucidating the nature of the transient features seen in the core region of the Venus vortex. References [1] Limaye, S. S. Venus atmospheric circulation: Known and unknown, J. Geophys. Res., 112, E04S09, doi:10.1029/2006JE002814 (2007). [2] Piccioni, G, Drossart, P., Sanchez-Lavega, A., Hueso, R., Taylor, F., Wilson, C., Grassi, D., Zasova, L., Moriconi, M., Adriani, A., Lebonnois, S., Coradini, A., Bézard, B., Angrilli, F., Arnold, G., Baines, K. H., Bellucci, G., Benkhoff, J., Bibring, J. P., Blanco, A., Blecka, M. I., Carlson, R. W., Di Lellis, A., Encrenaz, T., Erard, S., Fonti1, S., Formisano, V., Fouchet, T., Garcia1, R., Haus, R., J. Helbert, J., Ignatiev, N. I., Irwin, P., Langevin,Y.,Lopez-Valverde, M. A., Luz, D., Marinangeli, L., Orofino, V., Rodin, A. V., Roos-Serote, M. C., Saggin, B., ,Stam, D. M., Titov, D., Visconti, G., and Zambelli M. South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north, Nature, 450, 637-640, doi:10.1038/nature06209 (2007).
Limaye Sanjay S.
Markiewicz Wojciech
Moissl Richard
Titov Dimitry
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