Pioneer Venus Results: An Overview
Abstract
A summary is presented of the scientific results obtained during the first 120 days of the Pioneer Venus orbiter mission and produced by analysis of multiprobe data as of about 1 April 1979. The summary is essentially a guide to the material presented in the reports devoted to Pioneer Venus results in this issue of Science.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- July 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.205.4401.41
- Bibcode:
- 1979Sci...205...41D
- Keywords:
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- Data Processing;
- Venus Atmosphere;
- Venus Clouds;
- Venus Probes;
- Atmospheric Composition;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Interplanetary Magnetic Fields;
- Pioneer Venus 1 Spacecraft;
- Planetary Structure;
- Radar Data;
- Remote Sensors;
- Scintillation;
- Solar Wind;
- Topography;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration; Space Exploration; Venus;
- PIONEER VENUS;
- REVIEW;
- VENUS;
- MISSION DESCRIPTION;
- PROBES;
- ATMOSPHERE;
- COMPOSITION;
- STRUCTURE;
- ARGON;
- GAMMA RAYS;
- SURFACE;
- MAGNETIC FIELDS;
- EQUIPMENT