The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal

Colin Frank Wilson; Eric Chassefière; Emmanuel Hinglais; Kevin H. Baines; Tibor S. Balint; Jean Jacques Berthelier; Jacques Blamont; Georges Durry; Csaba S. Ferencz; Robert E. Grimm; Takeshi Imamura; Jean Luc Josset; François Leblanc; Sebastien Lebonnois; Johannes J. Leitner; Sanjay S. Limaye; Bernard Marty; Ernesto Palomba; Sergei V. Pogrebenko; Scot C.R. Rafkin; Dean L. Talboys; Rainer Wieler; Liudmila V. Zasova; Cyrill Szopa

doi:10.1007/s10686-011-9259-9

The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal

Colin Frank Wilson
, Eric Chassefière
, Emmanuel Hinglais
, Kevin H. Baines
, Tibor S. Balint
, Jean Jacques Berthelier
, Jacques Blamont
, Georges Durry
, Csaba S. Ferencz
, Robert E. Grimm
, Takeshi Imamura
, Jean Luc Josset
, François Leblanc
, Sebastien Lebonnois
, Johannes J. Leitner
, Sanjay S. Limaye
, Bernard Marty
, Ernesto Palomba
, Sergei V. Pogrebenko
, Scot C.R. Rafkin

Dean L. Talboys, Rainer Wieler, Liudmila V. Zasova, Cyrill Szopa

University of Oxford
Université Paris-Saclay
Centre National d'études Spatiales
Science Division
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Univ. de Reims Champagne Ardenne
Eötvös Loránd University
Southwest Research Institute
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Space Exploration Institute
University of Vienna
Nancy Université
INAF-IFSI
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
University of Leicester
ETH Zurich
Space Research Institute (IKI)

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The European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an 'M-class' mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55 km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (~25°C and ~0. 5 bar). The balloon float lifetime would be at least 10 Earth days, long enough to guarantee at least one full circumnavigation of the planet. This offers an ideal platform for the two main science goals of the mission: study of the current climate through detailed characterization of cloud-level atmosphere, and investigation of the formation and evolution of Venus, through careful measurement of noble gas isotopic abundances. These investigations would provide key data for comparative planetology of terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	305-335
Number of pages	31
Journal	Experimental Astronomy
Volume	33
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9259-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2012

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Keywords

Cosmic vision
Dynamics
Geochemistry
Planetary mission
Superpressure balloon
Venus

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Wilson, C. F., Chassefière, E., Hinglais, E., Baines, K. H., Balint, T. S., Berthelier, J. J., Blamont, J., Durry, G., Ferencz, C. S., Grimm, R. E., Imamura, T., Josset, J. L., Leblanc, F., Lebonnois, S., Leitner, J. J., Limaye, S. S., Marty, B., Palomba, E., Pogrebenko, S. V., ... Szopa, C. (2012). The 2010 European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission proposal. Experimental Astronomy, 33(2-3), 305-335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9259-9

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