Venus Orbital Mission Concept: Kythiran Eolian dYnamics from the Surface to the Thermosphere from an Orbital NEtwork (KEYSTONE)
Whitepaper #329 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: atmospheric/exospheric evolution; Venus
by Kevin McGouldrick, Giada Arney, Amanda Brecht, Anthony Colaprete, Shannon Curry, Justin Deighan, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Candace Gray, Robert Lillis, and Thomas Navarro
Published onMar 18, 2021
Venus Orbital Mission Concept: Kythiran Eolian dYnamics from the Surface to the Thermosphere from an Orbital NEtwork (KEYSTONE)
KEYSTONE is a two-spacecraft mission concept to study the atmospheric dynamics of Venus by measuring spatiotemporal variability of atmospheric constituents, and their drivers. The concept has cross-disciplinary implications for Heliophysics, Earth Science, and Astrophysics; and is applicable, with some modification, to the study of Mars and Titan.
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