The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal
Colin Franck Wilson
(1)
,
Eric Chassefière
(2)
,
Emmanuel Hinglais
(3)
,
Kevin H. Baines
(4, 5)
,
Tibor S. Balint
(4)
,
Jean-Jacques Berthelier
(6)
,
Jacques Blamont
(3)
,
Georges Durry
(7)
,
Csaba S. Ferencz
(8)
,
Robert E. Grimm
(9)
,
Takeshi Imamura
(10)
,
Jean-Luc Josset
(11)
,
François Leblanc
(6)
,
Sébastien Lebonnois
(12)
,
Johannes J. Leitner
(13)
,
Sanjay S. Limaye
(5)
,
Bernard Marty
(14)
,
Ernesto Palomba
(15)
,
Sergei V. Progrebenko
(16)
,
Scot C. R. Rafkin
(9)
,
Dean L. Talboys
(11)
,
Rainer Wieler
(17)
,
Liudmila V. Zasova
(18)
,
Cyril Szopa
(6)
,
The Eve Team
1
AOPP -
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford]
2 IDES - Interactions et dynamique des environnements de surface
3 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
4 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 SSEC - Space Science and Engineering Center [Madison]
6 PLANETO - LATMOS
7 GSMA - Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique
8 Space Research Laboratory [Budapest]
9 Department of Space Studies [Boulder]
10 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
11 SPACE - X - Space Exploration Institute [Neuchâtel]
12 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
13 Institute for Astronomy [Vienna]
14 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
15 IFSI - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
16 JIVE ERIC - Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
17 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
18 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2 IDES - Interactions et dynamique des environnements de surface
3 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
4 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 SSEC - Space Science and Engineering Center [Madison]
6 PLANETO - LATMOS
7 GSMA - Groupe de spectrométrie moléculaire et atmosphérique
8 Space Research Laboratory [Budapest]
9 Department of Space Studies [Boulder]
10 ISAS - Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
11 SPACE - X - Space Exploration Institute [Neuchâtel]
12 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
13 Institute for Astronomy [Vienna]
14 CRPG - Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
15 IFSI - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
16 JIVE ERIC - Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
17 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
18 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Colin Franck Wilson
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Eric Chassefière
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François Leblanc
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Sébastien Lebonnois
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Bernard Marty
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Cyril Szopa
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The Eve Team
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Résumé
The European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an 'M-class' mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55 km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (∼25°C and ∼0.5 bar). The balloon float lifetime would be at least 10 Earth days, long enough to guarantee at least one full circumnavigation of the planet. This offers an ideal platform for the two main science goals of the mission: study of the current climate through detailed characterization of cloud-level atmosphere, and investigation of the formation and evolution of Venus, through careful measurement of noble gas isotopic abundances. These investigations would provide key data for comparative planetology of terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond.