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Minor species in Venus’ night side troposphere as observed by VIRTIS-H/Venus Express

Emmanuel Marcq
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Jean-Loup Bertaux
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Pierre Drossart

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The 2,3 µm spectral window has been used to constrain the composition of the lower atmosphere (in the 30-40 km altitude range) on the night side of Venus for more than thirty years. Here, we present a follow-up study of Marcq et al. (2008), but using the full VIRTIS-H/Venus Express data archive as well as an updated radiative transfer forward model. We are able to confirm a latitudinal increase of CO of about 30% between 0° and 60°N, as well as an anti-correlated vertical shift of OCS profile by about 1 km in the same latitude range. Both variations are about twice smaller in the southern hemisphere. Correlations of low latitude CO and OCS variations with zonally shifted surface elevation is tentatively found. These results are consistent with CO and OCS variations resulting from the competition between local thermochemistry and a Hadley-cell-like general circulation, albeit influenced by the orography. Finally, no evidence for spatial variations of water vapor (combined H2O and HDO) or sulfur dioxide could be evidenced in this data set; better constraining possible variations of these species would require future missions to include infrared spectrometers operating at a spectral resolving power higher than 104 , such as VenSpec-H onboard EnVision.
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insu-04172172 , version 1 (30-10-2023)

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Emmanuel Marcq, B. Bézard, J.-M. Reess, F. Henry, S. Érard, et al.. Minor species in Venus’ night side troposphere as observed by VIRTIS-H/Venus Express. Icarus, 2023, 405 (November), pp.115714. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2023.115714⟩. ⟨insu-04172172⟩
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