Venus' spectroscopic phase variation - Implications of the Mariner 10 photographs

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Feb 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975apj...195..815c&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, vol. 195, Feb. 1, 1975, pt. 1, p. 815-817.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Absorption Spectra, Cloud Cover, Mariner Venus-Mercury 1973, Phase Shift, Ultraviolet Photography, Venus Clouds, Astronomical Models, Atmospheric Models, Carbon Dioxide, Spaceborne Photography, Ultraviolet Absorption, Venus Atmosphere

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The recent ultraviolet photographs of Venus by Mariner 10 have shown an irregular cloud structure. There is an apparent tendency for clearing along a wide equatorial band more or less centered on the subsolar point. This synoptic picture is in marked contrast to the uniform cloud cover conventionally used in model calculations of the variation with phase of CO2 absorption bands. To illustrate the consequences of subsolar weakening of CO2 absorption, a mathematically simple (but realistically naive) model is used. Two conclusions are reached: (1) efforts to distinguish between single- and double-layer models for the clouds from spectroscopic data alone are not merely ambiguous (as argued earlier by Chamberlain and Smith); with present data they are hopeless; (2) the decrease in the CO2 absorption close to full phase, as reported by Young et al., could result entirely from an equatorial darkening that is relatively inconsequential at the crescent phase and increasingly predominant for fuller phases.

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