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PV IV

PV IV: Plenary Talk

Monday, March 26, 2007, 18:00–18:45, H1

Venus Express — •Martin Pätzold — Universität zu Köln, Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Zülpicher Str. 49a, 50923 Köln

The European spacecraft Venus Express is in a 24-hours orbit about Venus since April 2006. The scientific objectives of the mission focus on the study of the structure, composition, dynamics of the atmosphere, the interaction of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere with the solar wind and the atmospheric mass loss. Seven instruments are on board; two instruments (Venus Monitoring Camera VMC and Venus Express Radio Science VeRa) are led by principal investigators from Germany. The prime mission is running over 500 orbits (=500 Earth days). The first outstanding results after one (Earth) year in orbit will be presented.