Venus Evolution Through Time: Key Science Questions, Selected Mission Concepts and Future Investigations

Thomas Widemann; Suzanne E. Smrekar; James B. Garvin; Anne Grete Straume-Lindner; Adriana C. Ocampo; Mitchell D. Schulte; Thomas Voirin; Scott Hensley; M. Darby Dyar; Jennifer L. Whitten; Daniel C. Nunes; Stephanie A. Getty; Giada N. Arney; Natasha M. Johnson; Erika Kohler; Tilman Spohn; Joseph G. O’Rourke; Colin F. Wilson; Michael J. Way; Colby Ostberg; Frances Westall; Dennis Höning; Seth Jacobson; Arnaud Salvador; Guillaume Avice; Doris Breuer; Lynn Carter; Martha S. Gilmore; Richard Ghail; Jörn Helbert; Paul Byrne; Alison R. Santos; Robert R. Herrick; Noam Izenberg; Emmanuel Marcq; Tobias Rolf; Matt Weller; Cedric Gillmann; Oleg Korablev; Lev Zelenyi; Ludmila Zasova; Dmitry Gorinov; Gaurav Seth; C. V.Narasimha Rao; Nilesh Desai

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Venus Evolution Through Time: Key Science Questions, Selected Mission Concepts and Future Investigations

Thomas Widemann^*, Suzanne E. Smrekar, James B. Garvin, Anne Grete Straume-Lindner, Adriana C. Ocampo, Mitchell D. Schulte, Thomas Voirin, Scott Hensley, M. Darby Dyar, Jennifer L. Whitten, Daniel C. Nunes, Stephanie A. Getty, Giada N. Arney, Natasha M. Johnson, Erika Kohler, Tilman Spohn, Joseph G. O’Rourke, Colin F. Wilson, Michael J. Way, Colby OstbergFrances Westall, Dennis Höning, Seth Jacobson, Arnaud Salvador, Guillaume Avice, Doris Breuer, Lynn Carter, Martha S. Gilmore, Richard Ghail, Jörn Helbert, Paul Byrne, Alison R. Santos, Robert R. Herrick, Noam Izenberg, Emmanuel Marcq, Tobias Rolf^*, Matt Weller, Cedric Gillmann, Oleg Korablev, Lev Zelenyi, Ludmila Zasova, Dmitry Gorinov, Gaurav Seth, C. V.Narasimha Rao, Nilesh Desai

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In this work we discuss various selected mission concepts addressing Venus evolution through time. More specifically, we address investigations and payload instrument concepts supporting scientific goals and open questions presented in the companion articles of this volume. Also included are their related investigations (observations & modeling) and discussion of which measurements and future data products are needed to better constrain Venus’ atmosphere, climate, surface, interior and habitability evolution through time. A new fleet of Venus missions has been selected, and new mission concepts will continue to be considered for future selections. Missions under development include radar-equipped ESA-led EnVision M5 orbiter mission (European Space Agency 2021), NASA-JPL’s VERITAS orbiter mission (Smrekar et al. 2022a), NASA-GSFC’s DAVINCI entry probe/flyby mission (Garvin et al. 2022a). The data acquired with the VERITAS, DAVINCI, and EnVision from the end of this decade will fundamentally improve our understanding of the planet’s long term history, current activity and evolutionary path. We further describe future mission concepts and measurements beyond the current framework of selected missions, as well as the synergies between these mission concepts, ground-based and space-based observatories and facilities, laboratory measurements, and future algorithmic or modeling activities that pave the way for the development of a Venus program that extends into the 2040s (Wilson et al. 2022).

Original language	English
Article number	56
Pages (from-to)	1-130
Number of pages	130
Journal	Space Science Reviews
Volume	219
Issue number	7
Early online date	3 Oct 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00992-w
Publication status	Published - Oct 2023

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Funding Information:
T.W. and G.A. acknowledge France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) for funding support of Venus related studies. J..B.G. (as well as S.G. G.A. N.J, and E. K) acknowledges NASA’s Discovery program for support of Venus related studies and the DAVINCI mission. Work by S.E.S., S.H., and D.N was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Members of the VERITAS team are grateful for funding by NASA’s Discovery Program and JPL’s proposal support. C.G. acknowledges the support of Rice University and the CLEVER planets group (itself supported by NASA and part of NExSS) and ET-HoME Excellence of Science programme. A.S. acknowledges support from NASA’s Habitable Worlds Program (No. 80NSSC20K0226). Section was prepared with the assistance of Oleg Sedykh (Venera-D). Finally, the authors thank the International Space Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, for supporting the “Venus: Evolution through Time” workshop and the subsequent book, of which this paper forms a chapter.

Funding Information:
T.W. and G.A. acknowledge France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) for funding support of Venus related studies. J.B.G. (as well as S.G. G.A. N.J, and E. K) acknowledges NASA’s Discovery program for support of Venus related studies and the DAVINCI mission. Work by S.E.S., S.H., and D.N was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Members of the VERITAS team are grateful for funding by NASA’s Discovery Program and JPL’s proposal support. C.G. acknowledges the support of Rice University and the CLEVER planets group (itself supported by NASA and part of NExSS) and ET-HoME Excellence of Science programme. A.S. acknowledges support from NASA’s Habitable Worlds Program (No. 80NSSC20K0226). Section 7 was prepared with the assistance of Oleg Sedykh (Venera-D). Finally, the authors thank the International Space Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, for supporting the “Venus: Evolution through Time” workshop and the subsequent book, of which this paper forms a chapter.

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Keywords

Atmospheric chemistry
Atmospheric dynamics
Geological processes
Ground and space-based observatories
Interior structure
Multispectral imager
Planetary system formation
Radio-science
Space instrumentation
Subsurface sounder
Surface processes
Synthetic aperture radar
Thermal state
Venus

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Widemann, T., Smrekar, S. E., Garvin, J. B., Straume-Lindner, A. G., Ocampo, A. C., Schulte, M. D., Voirin, T., Hensley, S., Dyar, M. D., Whitten, J. L., Nunes, D. C., Getty, S. A., Arney, G. N., Johnson, N. M., Kohler, E., Spohn, T., O’Rourke, J. G., Wilson, C. F., Way, M. J., ... Desai, N. (2023). Venus Evolution Through Time: Key Science Questions, Selected Mission Concepts and Future Investigations. Space Science Reviews, 219(7), 1-130. Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00992-w

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