The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Experimental Astronomy Année : 2012

The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal

Jean-Jacques Berthelier
  • Fonction : Auteur
  • PersonId : 968600
François Leblanc
Cyril Szopa
The Eve Team
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

The European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an 'M-class' mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55 km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (∼25°C and ∼0.5 bar). The balloon float lifetime would be at least 10 Earth days, long enough to guarantee at least one full circumnavigation of the planet. This offers an ideal platform for the two main science goals of the mission: study of the current climate through detailed characterization of cloud-level atmosphere, and investigation of the formation and evolution of Venus, through careful measurement of noble gas isotopic abundances. These investigations would provide key data for comparative planetology of terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond.

Dates et versions

hal-00628165 , version 1 (30-09-2011)

Identifiants

Citer

Colin Franck Wilson, Eric Chassefière, Emmanuel Hinglais, Kevin H. Baines, Tibor S. Balint, et al.. The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal. Experimental Astronomy, 2012, 33 (2-3), pp.305-335. ⟨10.1007/s10686-011-9259-9⟩. ⟨hal-00628165⟩
758 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More