Ultraviolet imager on Venus orbiter Akatsuki and its initial results

Ultraviolet imager on Venus orbiter Akatsuki and its initial results

Abstract The ultraviolet imager (UVI) has been developed for the Akatsuki spacecraft (Venus Climate Orbiter mission). The UVI takes ultraviolet (UV) images of the solar radiation reflected by the Venusian clouds with narrow bandpass filters centered at the 283 and 365 nm wavelengths. There are absor...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Yamazaki, Manabu Yamada, Yeon Joo Lee, Shigeto Watanabe, Takeshi Horinouchi, Shin-ya Murakami, Toru Kouyama, Kazunori Ogohara, Takeshi Imamura, Takao M. Sato, Yukio Yamamoto, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Hiroki Ando, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Seiko Takagi, Hiroki Kashimura, Shoko Ohtsuki, Naru Hirata, George L. Hashimoto, Makoto Suzuki, Chikako Hirose, Munetaka Ueno, Takehiko Satoh, Takumi Abe, Nobuaki Ishii, Masato Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-02-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
Subjects:
Venus orbiter Akatsuki
Ultraviolet imager (UVI)
UVI performance
UV images of Venus at the cloud top altitude
Initial results of cloud tracking
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-017-0772-6

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