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

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%.

Domains: Astrophysics [astro-ph]

Joern Helbert, Melinda D. Dyar, Ingo Walter, Dennis Wendler, Thomas Widemann, et al.. The Venus Emissivity Mapper (VEM) — Obtaining Global Mineralogy of Venus from Orbit. 16th Meeting of the Venus Exploration and Analysis Group (VEXAG), Nov 2018, Laurel, Maryland, United States. pp.LPI Contribution No. 2137, id.8023. ⟨insu-01972014⟩