JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020

Session information

[E] Oral

P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-PS Planetary Sciences

[P-PS06] Science of Venus: Venus Express, Akatsuki, and beyond

convener:Takehiko Satoh(Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Kevin McGouldrick(University of Colorado Boulder), Hideo Sagawa(Kyoto Sangyo University), Thomas Widemann(Observatoire De Paris)

In this century, our knowledge about the earth's twin sister, Venus, has greatly been advanced through two latest missions, ESA's Venus Express and JAXA's Akatsuki. The latter, in Venus orbit since December 2015, is providing high-quality data that allow studies of atmospheric dynamics in particular. Successful missions are the trigger of ideas of new missions (Russian Venera-D and Indian Shukrayaan-1 under development, European EnVision, and some US proposals). This session invites papers of the new results from data (spacecraft and ground-based), latest results of theoretical and numerical works, and descriptions of new missions as well.

*Masato Nakamura1, Atsushi Yamazaki1, Ryoma Yamashiro2, Nobuaki Ishii1, Tomoaki Toda1, Yoshifumi Futaana4, Sanjay S. Limaye3, Naoki Terada5, Hiroki Ando6, Toru Kouyama7, Takehiko Satoh1, Takeshi Imamura8, Makoto Taguchi9, Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi10, Takeshi Horinouchi11, Yeon Joo Lee12, Masahiro Takagi6, Masataka Imai7, Tetsuya Fukuhara9, Norihiko Sugimoto13, Hiroki Kashimura10, Shigeto Watanabe14, Takao M. Sato14, George L. Hashimoto15, Shin-ya Murakami1, Kevin McGouldrick16, Takumi Abe1, Chikako Hirose2, Manabu Yamada17, Kazunori Ogohara18, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama19, Shoko Ohtsuki20, Javier Peralta1, Seiko Takagi11, Naomoto Iwagami, Munetaka Ueno2, Takeshi Sakanoi5, Shingo Kameda9, Yasumasa Kasaba5, Yukihiro Takahashi11, Mitsuteru Sato11, Yoshihisa Matsuda21, Masaru Yamamoto22 (1.Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 2.Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3.Univ. of Wisconsin, 4.IRF, 5.Tohoku Univ., 6.Kyoto Sangyo Univ., 7.AIST, 8.Univ. of Tokyo, 9.Rikkyo Univ., 10.Kobe Univ., 11.Hokkaido Univ., 12.TU Berlin, 13.Keio Univ., 14.Hokkaido Joho Univ., 15.Okayama Univ., 16.Colorado Univ., 17.Chiba Institute of Technology, 18.Univ. of Shiga prefecture, 19.National Institute of Technologuy, Matsue college, 20.Senshu Univ., 21.Tokyo Gakugei Univ., 22.Kyusyu Univ.)