Venus Science Nuggets
Nuggets are intended to relay information on compelling science results, based on recent science paper(s). Format is a one-page PowerPoint with image(s) and text. Text provides background information and explains the impact of the results or activity to the field – at about a Grade 8 level – Reference to a paper, refereed or non-refereed journals is important.
October 2022 – VEXAG Science Nugget Template
October 2015 – Planetary Science Nuggets – Presentation at VEXAG Meeting #13 - Jim Green
* early career researcher
2023
May 2023 - Approaches for Retrieving Sulfur Speces Abundances from Dual X-Ka-band Radio Occultations of Venus with EnVision and VERITAS* - A. Akins, T. Bocanegra-Bahamón, K. –N. Wang, P. Vergados, C. Ao, S. Asmar, and R. Preston, The Planetary Science Journal (2023), 10.3847/PSJ/accae3
May 2023 - Constraining the Venus Interior Structure with Future VERITAS Measurements of the Gravitational Atmospheric Loading* - G. Cascioli, J. Renaud, E. Mazarico, D. Durante, L. Iess, S. Goossens, S. Smrekar, The Planetary Science Journal, 10.3847/PSJ/acc73c
April 2023 - A Morphological and Spatial Analysis of Volcanoes on Venus* - Hahn, R. M. & Byrne, P. K., JGR Planets, 2023
April 2023 - Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) Discovered as a Corrosion Product in Alloys Exposed to Venus simulated Atmospheric Conditions - Gustavo Costa, Anita Garg, Michael P. Brady, Corrosion Science, 211, 2023, 110882
April 2023 - Venus, the Planet: Introduction to the Evolution of Earth’s Sister Planet* - O’Rourke, Wilson, Borrelli, Byrne, Dumoulin, Ghail, Gülcher, Jacobson, Korablev, Spohn, Way, Weller, Westall (2023) Space Science Reviews
February 2023 - Safely landing on the tesserae is within reach! - Knicely et al. (2023), Planetary and Space Science
January 2023 - CO2 Profile and Analytical Model for the Pioneer Venus Large Probe Neutral Mass Spectrometer - Mogul, Limaye, & Way (2023) Icarus
2022
December 2022 - Phosphine in the Venusian Atmosphere: A Strict Upper Limit From SOFIA GREAT Observations - M. A. Cordiner et al. 2022, Geophysical Research Letters, 49(22).
December 2022 - Heat Flow Indicates Active Rifting and Volcanically Thinned Lid - Smrekar, S.E., C. Ostberg, J.G. O’Rourke, Nat. Geosci., doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01068-0, 2022.
October 2022 - Extended Rift-Associated Volcanism in Ganis Chasma, Venus* - Brossier, Gilmore and Head (2022).
October 2022 - Regional-Scale Lithospheric Delamination on Venus* - Adams et al. (2022). Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
September 2022 - Radar Backscatter and Emissivity Models of Proposed Pyroclastic Density Current Deposits on Venus* - Ganesh, I., Carter, L. M., & Henz, T. N. (2022). JGR: Planets
September 2022 - Characterization of a Transiting Exo-Venus and What We can Learn Using JWST - Beard et al. (2022). The Astrophysical Journal 936
August 2022 - VALENTInE: A Variable Altitude Venus Mission Concept* - Arredondo, A., et al. (2022), Planetary Science Journal
July 2022 - Constraining the Interior Structure of Venus from the Gravity Response to Atmospheric Loading - Petricca et al. (2022), Planetary Science Journal
June 2022 - Revealing the Shape of Venus’ Wrinkles* - Bethell et al. (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
May 2022 - Impact Ejecta across Venus’ Tallest Mountains - Campbell and Whitten (2022), Geophysical Research Letters
May 2022 - Massive Volcanism Leads to Heat-death of Earth-like Worlds - Way, Ernst, Scargle (2022) Planetary Science Journal, in press
May 2022 - A Fast and Robust Surface Sample Acquisition System for a Venus Lander - Hall, J. L., Melko, J., Sherrill, K., Rehnmark, F., Bailey, J., Cloninger, E., Yen, B., Tims, J., Rabinovitch, J., Lambert, J., Zacny, K.
March 2022 - Arecibo Radar Maps of Venus from 1988 to 2020 - Campbell, B., Campbell, D.
February 2022 - Venus Mountain Waves in the Upper Atmosphere Simulated by a Time-invariant Linear Spectral Full-wave Model - Hickey, M. P., Navarro, T., Schubert, G., Walterscheid, R.
2021
December 2021 - A New Understanding of Venus’ Tail Rays from Parker Solar Probe - Collinson, G., Ramstad, R., Frahm, R., Wilson III, L., Xu, S., Whittlesey, P., Brecht, S.H., Ledvina, S.
November 2021 - Evidence for a Locally Thinned Lithosphere Associated with Recent Volcanism at Aramaiti Corona, Venus* - Russell, M. B., Johnson, C. L.
November 2021 - Was Venus ever habitable?* - Krissansen-Totton et al.
November 2021 - Idunn Mons: Evidence for Ongoing Volcano-tectonic Activity and Atmospheric Implications on Venus* - D’Incecco, P., Filiberto, J., López, I., Gorinov, D.A., Komatsu, G.
November 2021 - Understanding species spatial distribution in the Venus lower atmosphere - Morellina, S.*, Bellan, J.
October 2021 - Magnetic Topology at Venus: New Insights into the Venus Plasma Environment* - Xu, S., Frahm, R.A., Ma, Y., Luhmann, J.G., Mitchell, D.L.
October 2021 - Threat from Within: Excitation of Venus's Co-orbital Asteroids to Earth-crossing Orbits - Pokorny, P., Kuchner, M. J.
October 2021 - Venus Exploration in the New Human Spaceflight Age - N. R. Izenberg, R. L. McNutt Jr, K. D. Runyon, P. K. Byrne, and A. MacDonald
October 2021 - The Venus Life Equation - N. R. Izenberg et al.
September 2021 - Airglow and Shocks Revealed in the Upper Atmosphere of Venus* - Navarro et al., Gilli et al.
September 2021 - The young volcanic rises: a key scientific target for future missions to Venus* - P. D’Incecco, J. Filiberto, I. López, D.A. Gorinov, G. Komatsu, A. Martynov, P. Pisarenko
September 2021 - Early Habitability and Crustal Decarbonation of a Stagnant-Lid Venus* - Höning, D., Baumeister, P., Grenfell, J.L., Tosi, N., Way, M.J.
September 2021 - Modeling the dynamics of dense pyroclastic flows on Venus: insights into pyroclastic eruptions* - I. Ganesh, L. A. McGuire, and L. M. Carter
September 2021 - Survey of mid-sized Venusian volcanoes using stereo-derived topography* - J. J. C. Knicely, R. R. Herrick
August 2021 - A global survey of lithospheric flexure at steep-sided domical volcanoes on Venus reveals intermediate elastic thicknesses* - Borrelli, M. E., O'Rourke, J. G., Smrekar, S. E., & Ostberg, C. M.
July 2021 - Volcanically extruded phosphide as an abiotic source of Venusian phosphine* - Truong and Lunine
July 2021 - A Globally Fragmented and Mobile Lithosphere on Venus - Byrne et al.
June 2021 - How Long is a Day on Venus? - Margot et al.
June 2021 - Characterizing landing site safety on Venus using Venera panoramas and Magellan radar properties - J. Rabinovitch, K. M. Stack
May 2021 - NASA's Parker Solar Probe Discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venus' Atmosphere - G. Collinson et al.
May 2021 - First Balloon Detection of Earthquake from Acoustic Signature
2020
July 2020 - Venus: A Thick Basal Magma Ocean May Exist Today - O'Rourke, J.G.
May 2020 - Altitude-dependent nitrogen concentrations in Venus' atmosphere - Peplowski, Lawrence, and Wilson
2017
April 2017 - Discovery of a 150-day period in the Venus clouds - McGouldrick and Tsang
April 2017 - Mapping the Deepest Parts of Venus’ Atmosphere - Tsang and McGouldrick
2016
September 2016 – Recent Volcanism on Venus: Implications from Emissivity – Stofan, et al.
September 2016 – Was Ancient Venus A Habitable World? -Way, et al
August 2016 – Venus Loses Ocean Via Powerful Electric Winds – Collinson et al.
2015
2015 – Earth-based Radar Observations looking for changes – Bruce Campbell, et al.
2015 – Unique Cloud Structure at Venus Explainwed – Peralta, et al.
October 2015 – Distribution of Venus’ 70-80 km SO and SO2 gas densities – Jessup et al.
September 2015 – VIRTIS Emissivity of Alpha Regio, Venus, with Implications for Tessera Composition –
Martha Gilmore, Nils Mueller, and Jörn Helbert
August 2015 – 2015 Radar Observations of Venus – Bruce Campbell, et al.
June 2015 – Venus Express Evidence for Active Venusian Volcanoes – ESA Press Release
April 2015 – Super Sonic Winds in Venusian Atmosphere - Clancey, et al.
February 2015 – Similar Ionization Processes on Venus and Mars - Tsang et al.
February 2015 – Y Feature – A Wind Distorted Wave - Peralta et al.
February 2015 - Quiet Magnetic Field during Aerobraking - C. T. Russell, M. Villarreal and T. L. Zhang
February 2015 - Venus Express Radio Occultation Results - Dave Hinson
2014
December 2014 - Maps of the Dynamic Venus Sub-Cloud Atmosphere – Glada Arney
December 2014 – Venus Mysterious Aurora – Candace Gray
August 2014 – Lighting Detection by Venus Express – Chris Russell
August 2014 – Venus - Radar-bright Highlands – Ferroelectric Substance - Elise Harrington,Simon Fraser, and Allan Treiman
August 2014 – The ionosphere of Venus from Venus Express - Zachary Girazian and Paul Withers
March 2014 – Bimodal distribution of sulfuric acid aerosols in the upper haze of Venus – Peter Gao
March 2014 – Determining the Size of Planetary Cores – Chris Russell
March 2014 – Glory on Venus! – Sanjay Limaye
2013
September 2013 – Recent Volcanism, Mantle Plumes, and Volatiles on Venus - Sue Smrekar
July 2013 – Venus Express SPICAV/SOIR Spectrometers Results - Yuk Yung
July 2013 – The Venus Spectral Rocket (VeSpR) - John Clarke
March 2013 – Cassini spies Venus from Saturn Orbit - ESA Press Release
