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VIRTIS: The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer

G. Piccioni
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E. Suetta
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M. Cosi
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E. Amannito
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A. Barbis
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R. Berlin
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A. Bocaccini
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G. Bonello
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F. Capaccioni
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G. Cherubini
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M. Dami
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G. Filacchione
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S. Hofer
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R. Melchiorri
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C. Pasqui
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G. Peter
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C. Pompei
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A. Adriani
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F. Angrilli
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G. Arnold
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K. Baines
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G. Bellucci
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J. Benkhoff
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A. Blanco
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M. I. Blecka
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R. Carlson
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A. Coradini
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A. Di Lellis
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S. Fonti
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V. Formisano
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R. Garcia
R. Haus
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J. Helbert
N. I. Ignatiev
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P. Irwin
M. A. Lopez Valverde
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M. Marinangeli
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V. Orofino
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A. V. Rodin
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M. C. Roos-Serote
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B. Saggin
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A. Sanchez-Lavega
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B. M. Stam
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F. Taylor
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D. Titov
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G. Visconti
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M. Zambelli
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Abstract

The VIRTIS imaging spectrometer built for ESA's Rosetta cometary mission is a versatile instrument that is also well-suited to Venus observations. The discovery of the near-IR windows in the atmosphere of Venus from ground-based observations in the 1980s showed that the surface of the planet can be studied via IR observations over the nightside. Imaging spectroscopy in the visible and near-IR can study the atmosphere from the uppermost layers down to the deepest levels. With its unique combination of mapping capabilities at low spectral resolution (VIRTIS-M) and high spectral resolution slit spectroscopy (VIRTIS-H), the instrument is ideal for making extensive IR and visible spectral images of the planet.
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insu-03603172 , version 1 (09-03-2022)

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G. Piccioni, P. Drossart, E. Suetta, M. Cosi, E. Amannito, et al.. VIRTIS: The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer. 2007. ⟨insu-03603172⟩
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