| A Journey to Venus' Volcanoes |
| João Dias |
| Lisbon University; Portugal |
| The detection of volcanic eruptions on Venus, their composition, eruption rates and distribution can give us insight into the planetary heat budget, the volatile cycle and atmospheric evolution. On the first part of the lecture, I will address example surface and atmospheric studies of Venus, to provide some framework on our current knowledge of atmospheric minor species composition and variability. On the second part of the lecture, I will talk about the future steps to search for volcanism on the context of the EnVision mission, which will perform high spectral, spatial and temporal resolution measurements of minor species in the troposphere, in the nightside near-infrared spectral windows (1.17, 1.74 and 2.41μm). Finally, I will present an example of an ongoing sensitivity study, on the detectability of H2O plumes using the Planetary Spectrum Generator (PSG), a radiative transfer suite. |