English
 
Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

Synergies Between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations

Authors

Way,  M. J.
External Organizations;

Ostberg,  Colby
External Organizations;

Foley,  Bradford J.
External Organizations;

Gillmann,  Cedric
External Organizations;

/persons/resource/dennis.hoening

Höning,  Dennis
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

Lammer,  Helmut
External Organizations;

O’Rourke,  Joseph
External Organizations;

Persson,  Moa
External Organizations;

Plesa,  Ana-Catalina
External Organizations;

Salvador,  Arnaud
External Organizations;

Scherf,  Manuel
External Organizations;

Weller,  Matthew
External Organizations;

External Ressource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (public)

29047oa.pdf
(Publisher version), 4MB

Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Way, M. J., Ostberg, C., Foley, B. J., Gillmann, C., Höning, D., Lammer, H., O’Rourke, J., Persson, M., Plesa, A.-C., Salvador, A., Scherf, M., Weller, M. (2023): Synergies Between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations. - Space Science Reviews, 219, 13.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-023-00953-3


Cite as: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_29047
Abstract
Here we examine how our knowledge of present day Venus can inform terrestrial exoplanetary science and how exoplanetary science can inform our study of Venus. In a superficial way the contrasts in knowledge appear stark. We have been looking at Venus for millennia and studying it via telescopic observations for centuries. Spacecraft observations began with Mariner 2 in 1962 when we confirmed that Venus was a hothouse planet, rather than the tropical paradise science fiction pictured. As long as our level of exploration and understanding of Venus remains far below that of Mars, major questions will endure. On the other hand, exoplanetary science has grown leaps and bounds since the discovery of Pegasus 51b in 1995, not too long after the golden years of Venus spacecraft missions came to an end with the Magellan Mission in 1994. Multi-million to billion dollar/euro exoplanet focused spacecraft missions such as JWST, and its successors will be flown in the coming decades. At the same time, excitement about Venus exploration is blooming again with a number of confirmed and proposed missions in the coming decades from India, Russia, Japan, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Here we review what is known and what we may discover tomorrow in complementary studies of Venus and its exoplanetary cousins.