Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2020-07-08 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
The authors and co-signers of the Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept white paper advocate that planetary science in the next decade would greatly benefit from comparatively studying the fundamental behavior of the atmospheres of Venus and Mars, contemporaneously and with the same instrumentation, to capture atmospheric response to the same solar forcing, and with a minimum of instrument-related variability. Thus, this white paper was created for the 2023-2032 Planetary Science Decadal Survey process. It describes the science rationale for such a mission, and a mission concept that could achieve such a mission.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2007.03049,
title = {Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept},
author = {Leslie K. Tamppari and Amanda Brecht and Kevin Baines and Brian Drouin and Larry Esposito and Scott Guzewich and Richard Hofer and Kandis Lea Jessup and Armin Kleinböhl and Tibor Kremic and Michael Mischna and Nicholas Schneider and Aymeric Spiga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03049},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
8 pages including cover page with one figure on cover page