Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki Mission : mission et cibles

Début du projet

20 mai 2010

Fin déclarée

non déclarée

Le début que l’archive déclare est celui du projet, pas le lancement, et une fin qu’elle ne déclare pas ne veut pas dire que la mission est toujours en cours.

Cibles à ouvrir en 3D :

• Vénus

Une cible déclarée est ce sous quoi l’archive range les données de la mission, pas un relevé d’observation.

The main goal of the mission of Akatsuki, also known as Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and PLANET-C is to understand the Venusian atmospheric dynamics, super-rotation, and cloud physics, with the explorations of the ground surface and the interplanetary dust also being the themes. The Venusian atmosphere was studied during the Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency. Akatsuki was also designed to study the Venusian atmosphere, but in contrast to the Venus Express strategy, five cameras with narrowband filters will image Venus at different wavelengths to track the distributions of clouds and minor gaseous constituents at different heights. In other words, we aim to study the Venusian atmospheric dynamics in three dimensions, while Venus Express collected mainly spectroscopic observations of the atmosphere. The mission started with the mission name and the spacecraft name PLANET-C, which means Japan's third planetary explorer succeeding SUISEI (PLANET-A), which observed Halley's comet, and NOZOMI (PLANET-B), which could not complete its mission to explore Mars.

Citée en anglais, telle que l’archive la publie, lue le 4 octobre 2026.

Identifiant dans l’archive, qui en est la citation : urn:jaxa:darts:context:investigation:mission.vco

NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates et cibles lues le 29 septembre 2026 ; comment citer l’archive : https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/

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