The Venus Emissivity Mapper (VEM) — Obtaining Global Mineralogy of Venus from Orbit
Joern Helbert
(1)
,
Melinda D. Dyar
(2)
,
Ingo Walter
(3)
,
Dennis Wendler
(1)
,
Thomas Widemann
(4)
,
Emmanuel Marcq
(5)
,
Gabriel Guignan
(6)
,
Alessandro Maturilli
(1)
,
Sabrina Ferrari
(7)
,
Nils Mueller
(8)
,
David Kappel
(1)
,
Mario d'Amore
(1)
,
Anko Boerner
(9)
,
Constantine Tsang
(8)
,
Gabriele E. Arnold
(9)
,
Suzanne Smrekar
(10)
,
R. C. Ghail
(11)
1
DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
2 Mount Holyoke College
3 DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems
4 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
5 PLANETO - LATMOS
6 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
7 UNIPV - Università degli Studi di Pavia = University of Pavia
8 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [Boulder]
9 DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
10 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11 Imperial College London
2 Mount Holyoke College
3 DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems
4 LESIA (UMR_8109) - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
5 PLANETO - LATMOS
6 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
7 UNIPV - Università degli Studi di Pavia = University of Pavia
8 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [Boulder]
9 DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
10 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11 Imperial College London
Emmanuel Marcq
- Function : Author
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Gabriel Guignan
- Function : Author
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- IdHAL : gabriel-guignan
Nils Mueller
- Function : Author
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- ORCID : 0000-0001-9229-8921
David Kappel
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 778729
- ORCID : 0000-0002-0518-5548
Constantine Tsang
- Function : Author
- PersonId : 792677
- ORCID : 0000-0002-1939-6813
Suzanne Smrekar
- Function : Author
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- ORCID : 0000-0001-8775-075X
Abstract
The Venus Emissivity Mapper has a mature design with an existing laboratory prototype verifying an achievable instrument SNR of well above 1000 as well as a predicted error in the retrieval of relative emissivity of better than 1%.