The night-side view of Venus imaged by AKATSUKI IR2 camera.
Material No
P100010570
Material type
Record image and photograph
Shooting date
2016/03/25
Category
Satellites and Spacecraft > Lunar and Planetary Exploration Spacecraft > Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI " (PLANET-C)
Contents
The night-side view of Venus imaged by IR2 at 0.1 M km distance. This is to date the most detailed global view of the night-side disk. At 2.26 um, spatially-inhomogeneous clouds appear as silhouette back-illuminated by thermal radiation from the hot lower atmosphere. Such images, combined with other cameras' data, will be used to study the 3D structure and dynamics of Venus atmosphere.
(25 March 2016, 7:32 UT)
Instrument: IR2 camera (2.26-um wavelength filter)
Exposure: 6 sec