A mechanism for the low nightside temperatures in the Venus thermosphere

A mechanism is proposed and discussed that may account for the extraordinarily low temperatures in the nightside upper atmosphere of Venus: cooling by the emission of infrared radiation in the rotational band of the H2O molecule, which represents a minor constituent of the atmosphere. A theoretical...

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Veröffentlicht in:Soviet astronomy letters 1984-09, Vol.10, p.291-293
Hauptverfasser: GORDIETS, B F, Kulikov, I U N
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Sprache:eng
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