Predicted times of bow Shock crossings at Venus from the ESA/Venus Express mission, using spacecraft ephemerides and magnetic field data, with a predictor-corrector algorithm ...

CHARACTERISTICS Planet: Venus Radius: R V = 6051.8 km (volumetric mean planetary radius) Spacecraft: ESA/Venus Express Spacecraft coordinates system: Venus Solar Orbital (VSO) equivalent to Sun-State coordinate system: + X VSO points towards the Sun from the planet’s centre, + Z VSO towards Venus’ N...

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Main Authors: Simon Wedlund, Cyril, Volwerk, Martin, Persson, Moa, Bergman, Sofia, Signoles, Claire
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2023
Subjects:
Bow shock
Venus
Venus Express
North Pole
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7650328
https://zenodo.org/record/7650328
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Summary:CHARACTERISTICS Planet: Venus Radius: R V = 6051.8 km (volumetric mean planetary radius) Spacecraft: ESA/Venus Express Spacecraft coordinates system: Venus Solar Orbital (VSO) equivalent to Sun-State coordinate system: + X VSO points towards the Sun from the planet’s centre, + Z VSO towards Venus’ North pole and perpendicular to the orbital plane defined as the X VSO – Y VSO plane passing through the centre of Venus, Y VSO completes the orthogonal system. Time span: 01/04/2006 to 25/11/2014 Total number N of candidate bow shock crossings in the database: N = 4950 Number of quasi-parallel bow shock crossings: N || = 844 Number of quasi-perpendicular bow shock crossings: N \(\perp\) = 4106 ORIGINAL DATASETS USED The original Venus Express/MAG data repository on which these algorithms were applied is available on ESA's Planetary Science Archive system (PSA) at: https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa/ftp/VENUS-EXPRESS/MAG/. For this study, 1-Hz magnetic field data was used. METHOD To construct this database from the ...

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