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Measuring Venus' atmospheric circulation at different altitudes is important for understanding its complex dynamics, in particular the mechanisms driving the super-rotation. Observationally, Doppler imaging spectroscopy is in principle be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Patrick Gaulme , Francois-Xavier Schmider , Thomas Widemann , Ivan Goncalves , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Bernard Gelly

We report vertical thermal structure and wind velocities in the Venusian mesosphere retrieved from carbon monoxide (12CO J=2-1 and 13CO J=2-1) spectral line observations obtained with the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (HHSMT). We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-17 M. Rengel , P. Hartogh , C. Jarchow

Characterizing the Martian atmosphere is an essential objective to understand its meteorology and its climate. The lower atmosphere (< 40 km) and middle atmosphere (40-80 km) of Mars appear dynamically coupled at much higher levels than in…

An improved high-resolution ground-to-thermosphere version of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) Venus General Circulation Model (VGCM), including non-orographic gravity waves (GW) parameterization and fine-tuned non-LTE parameters,…

The Venusian atmosphere is covered by clouds with super-rotating winds whose accelerating mechanism is still not well understood. The fastest winds, occurring at the cloud tops ($\sim$70 km height), have been studied for decades thanks to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-08 J. Peralta , N. Iwagami , Sánchez-Lavega , Y. J. Lee , R. Hueso , M. Narita , T. Imamura , P. Miles , A. Wesley , E. Kardasis , S. Takagi

High spectral resolution observations of Venus were obtained with the TEXES instrument at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility. These observations focus on a CO$_2$ absorption feature at 791.4 cm$^{-1}$ as the shape of this absorption feature…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Rohini S Giles , Thomas K Greathouse , Patrick G J Irwin , Thérèse Encrenaz , Amanda Brecht

At the cloud top level of Venus (65-70 km altitude) the atmosphere rotates 60 times faster than the underlying surface, a phenomenon known as superrotation. Whereas on Venus's dayside the cloud top motions are well determined and Venus…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-13 J. Peralta , R. Hueso , A. Sánchez-Lavega , Y. J. Lee , A. García-Muñoz , T. Kouyama , H. Sagawa , T. M. Sato , G. Piccioni , S. Tellmann , T. Imamura , T. Satoh

The knowledge of the Venus near-surface atmosphere is sparse. Few spacecrafts landed on the surface and measured winds with amplitudes below 1 m/s. The diurnal cycle of the wind amplitude and orientation is not known. Recent numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Maxence Lefèvre , Sébastien Lebonnois , Aymeric Spiga , François Forget

The atmosphere of Venus is characterized by strong superrotation, in which the wind velocities at cloud heights are around 60 times faster than the surface rotation rate. The reasons for this strong superrotation are still not well…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Helen F. Parish , Jonathan L. Mitchell

Winds in Titan's lower and middle atmosphere have been determined by a variety of techniques, including direct measurements from the Huygens Probe over 0-150 km, Doppler shifts of molecular spectral lines in the optical, thermal infrared…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 E. Lellouch , M. A. Gurwell , R. Moreno , S. Vinatier , D. F. Strobel , A. Moullet , B. Butler , L. Lara , T. Hidayat , E. Villard

We present measurements of the wind speeds at the nightside lower clouds of Venus from observations by JAXA's mission Akatsuki during 2016, complemented with new wind measurements from ground-based observations acquired with TNG/NICS in…

Solar light gets scattered at cloud top level in Venus' atmosphere, in the visible range, which corresponds to the altitude of 67 km. We present Doppler velocity measurements performed with the high resolution spectrometer MTR of the Solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-12 P. Gaulme , F. -X Schmider , C. Grec , A. Lopez Ariste , T. Widemann , B. Gelly

Neptune's tropospheric winds are among the most intense in the Solar System, but the dynamical mechanisms that produce them remain uncertain. Measuring wind speeds at different pressure levels may help understand the atmospheric dynamics of…

We present an analysis of data about Saturn's atmosphere from Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), focusing on the meteorology of the features seen in the 5-micron spectral window. We present VIMS mosaics and discuss…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-28 David S. Choi , Adam P. Showman , Robert H. Brown

Venus Express provided a long-term monitoring of Venus atmosphere. Several works focused on the dynamics of the upper cloud visible on the day-side in ultraviolet images sensitive to the 65-70 km altitude and in the lower cloud level (50 km…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-31 Ricardo Hueso , Javier Peralta , Itziar Garate-Lopez , Tatyana V. Bandos , Agustin Sanchez-Lavega

The Venusian atmosphere is in a state of superrotation where prevailing westward winds move much faster than the planet's rotation. Venus is covered with thick clouds that extend from about 45 to 70 km altitude, but thermal radiation…

The current work investigates the Venusian solar-wind-induced magnetosphere at a high spatial resolution using all Venus Express (VEX) magnetic observations through an unbiased statistical method. We first evaluate the predictability of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Maosheng He , Joachim Vogt , Eduard Dubinin , Tielong Zhang , Zhaojin Rong

The mesosphere of Venus is a critical range of altitudes in which complex temperature variability has been extensively studied by the space mission Venus Express (Vex) during its eight-years mission (2006-2014). Data collected at different…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 C. Pere , P. Tanga , Th. Widemann , Ph. Bendjoya , A. Mahieux , V. Wilquet , A. C. Vandaele

The outer heliosphere is a dynamic region shaped largely by the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. While interplanetary magnetic field and plasma observations by the Voyager spacecraft have significantly…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 T. K. Kim , N. V. Pogorelov , G. P. Zank , H. A. Elliott , D. J. McComas

Context. The atmosphere of exoplanets has been studied extensively in recent years, using numerical models to retrieve chemical composition, dynamical circulation or temperature from data. One of the best observational probes in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 J. V. Seidel , D. Ehrenreich , L. Pino , V. Bourrier , B. Lavie , R. Allart , A. Wyttenbach , C. Lovis
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