Mapping Venus Mineralogy and Chemistry In Situ from Orbit with Six-Window VNIR Spectroscopy

M. D. Dyar (1) , J. Helbert (2) , T. Boucher (3) , D. Wendler (2) , I. Walter (4) , Thomas Widemann (5) , Emmanuel Marcq (6) , A. Maturilli (2) , S. Ferrari (7) , M. d'Amore (2) , N. Müller (8) , S. Smrekar (8)

1 PSI - Planetary Science Institute [Tucson]
2 DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
3 College of Information and Computer Sciences [Amherst]
4 DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems
5 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
6 PLANETO - LATMOS
7 CISAS - Centro di Ateneo di Studi e Attività Spaziali “Giuseppe Colombo”
8 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Emissivity data from ca. 1 micron lab measurements at DLR demonstrate the ability to distinguish among key rock types on Venus, and measure their redox state and transition metal contents from in situ orbit around Venus.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

M. D. Dyar, J. Helbert, T. Boucher, D. Wendler, I. Walter, et al.. Mapping Venus Mineralogy and Chemistry In Situ from Orbit with Six-Window VNIR Spectroscopy. 15th Meeting of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group ( VEXAG ), Nov 2017, Laurel, Maryland, United States. ⟨insu-01672492⟩