Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8134352 | Icarus | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The longest-lived in-situ measurement platforms at Venus have been the Soviet VEGA balloons in 1985 and the only high-quality pressure/temperature profile in the lowest 10â¯km of the atmosphere is that from the VEGA-2 lander. Here we review the mission and the resultant literature and report the archival of numerical data from these investigations on the NASA Planetary Data System Atmospheres Node to facilitate their access to the community. We additionally report some new results, including the striking absence of a signature of the planetary boundary layer in the near-surface potential temperature profile from the VEGA-2 lander, in contrast to the well-defined boundaries seen in a comparable profile at Titan.
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Authors
Ralph D. Lorenz, David Crisp, Lyle Huber,