Spatial and Temporal Variability of the 365-nm Albedo of Venus Observed by the Camera on Board Venus Express

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Lee, Y. J., Kopparla, P., Peralta, Javier, Schröder, Stefan, Imamura, T., Kouyama, T., Watanabe, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Planetengeologie; Aphrodite; South Pole; Venus; South pole
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/135304/; https://elib.dlr.de/135304/1/2020%20Lee%20et%20al.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JE006271; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006271

We mapped the distribution of the 365-nm albedo of the Venus atmosphere over the years 2006-2014, using images acquired by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board Venus Express. We selected all images with a global view of Venus to investigate how the albedo depends on longitude. Bertaux et al. (...