SM032
Venus as a Heliophysics Laboratory
Session ID#: 250203
Session Description:
Earth and Venus are similar in size, and the same fundamental physics governs the coupling of solar drivers into their magnetosphere - ionosphere - thermosphere systems. But unique properties of Venus, including very slow planetary rotation and a complete lack of intrinsic magnetic fields, provide an underused laboratory—better in some ways than the Earth—for the study of fundamental heliophysics processes, including the atmospheric escape processes that control planetary desiccation, ionosphere - magnetosphere coupling processes (particle acceleration, outflow, and precipitation), and the upper atmospheric dynamics needed to redistribute strong solar energy input from day to night. Venus is exposed to greater solar forcing than Earth, and offers a unique vantage point on the Sun and solar wind that alternates between being upstream from and antipodal to Earth. We welcome studies of Venus as a comparative heliophysics laboratory for plasma physics, ion-neutral coupling, upper atmosphere dynamics and chemistry, and heliosphere observations.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
6295 Venus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Michael Chaffin, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Kathleen Gwen Hanley, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Joe Caggiano, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States and Candace Gray, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Skylar R Shaver, West Virgina University, Morgantown, United States
Predicting CO Cameron‐Band Auroral Emission at Venus Using VEx Electron Observations (Invited) (1854320)
Shaosui Xu1, Rudy Frahm2, Yingjuan Ma3, David L Mitchell4, Janet G Luhmann1, Jean-Claude Gérard5, Lauriane Soret6 and Robert J Lillis4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Southwest Research Institute, Southwest Reasarch Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)Université de Liège, STAR-LPAP, Liège, Belgium, (6)Villefranche-Surmer, France
Latitudinal and Local Time Variability of Winds and Super-Rotation in the Venus Thermosphere: Current Understanding and Future Directions (1962823)
Sonal Jain, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Amanda S Brecht, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Stephen W Bougher, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Hanli Liu, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Stephen A Ledvina, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Shane Wesley Stone, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Skylar R Shaver, West Virgina University, Morgantown, United States and Michael Chaffin, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
2-D Photochemical Modeling of the Venusian Thermosphere and Ionosphere: Effects of Day-to-Night Transport (Invited) (1967499)
Krishnaprasad Chirakkil1, Michael Chaffin2, Bethan Gregory2, Eryn M Cangi2, Simon Correra3 and Kevin McGouldrick2, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States
A Twin-Spacecraft Mission Concept to Explore the Venus Thermosphere - Ionosphere - Magnetosphere System (1995809)
Michael Chaffin, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Kathleen Gwen Hanley, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Christopher M Fowler, West Virginia University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Morgantown, United States, Robert J Lillis, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and the Kestrel mission concept team
