Nightside temperature measurements at 95 km from OH nightglow in the Venus atmosphere

Alessandra Migliorini (1) , Marcel Snels (2) , Jean-Claude Gérard (3) , Lauriane Soret (3) , Giuseppe Piccioni (1) , Pierre Drossart (4, 5)

1 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
2 ISAC-CNR, Rome, Italy
3 LPAP - Laboratoire de Physique Atmosphérique et Planétaire
4 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
5 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA

Temperature estimations at an altitude of about 95 km on the night side of Venus are provided. They are derived from hydroxyl nightglow emissions, observed in the infrared spectral range at 2.7-3.5 micron, using the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on board Venus Express.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Alessandra Migliorini, Marcel Snels, Jean-Claude Gérard, Lauriane Soret, Giuseppe Piccioni, et al.. Nightside temperature measurements at 95 km from OH nightglow in the Venus atmosphere. European Planetary Science Congress 2017, Sep 2017, Riga, Latvia. ⟨hal-03744083⟩