Publications (5)
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express: a new science instrument made from an old webcam orbiting Mars
Jorge From, :, Jorge Hernández-Bernal +19
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is a small imaging instrument onboard Mars Express with a field of view of ~40x30 degrees. The camera was initially intended to provide visual co…
EnVision: understanding why our most Earth-like neighbour is so different
Richard Ghail, Colin Wilson, Thomas Widemann +9
This document is the EnVision Venus orbiter proposal, submitted in October 2016 in response to ESA's M5 call for Medium-size missions for its Science Programme, for launch in 2029.…
No evidence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus by independent analyses
Geronimo Villanueva, Martin Cordiner, Patrick Irwin +24
The detection of phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus has been recently reported based on millimeter-wave radio observations (Greaves et al. 2020), and its re-analyses (Greav…
Venus: Key to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets
Colin Wilson
Why are the terrestrial planets so different? Venus should be the most Earth-like of all our planetary neighbours. Its size, bulk composition and distance from the Sun are very sim…
Context images for Venus Express radio occultation measurements: A search for a correlation between temperature structure and UV contrasts in the clouds of Venus
Maarten Roos-Serote, Colin Wilson, Ryan MacDonald +3
Venus exhibits strong and changing contrasts at ultraviolet wavelengths apparently related to the clouds and the dynamics in the cloud layer, but to date their origin continues to…