The Eve Team's scientific contributions

Publications (2)

Article
The European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an ‘M-class’ mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (∼25°C and ∼...

Citations

... The first of these themes explicitly calls for a study of planetary formation and evolution, and the emergence of habitable environments, and then of life itself. These themes are clearly addressed by the EnVision orbiter that in 2021 was selected to be the next mission in ESA's space science program-and would also be addressed by cloud-level balloon missions like the European Venus Explorer concept proposed to ESA in 2007 and 2010 (Wilson et al. 2012). The second top-level question posed in the Cosmic Vision strategy deals with the role of the Sun in the solar system, and its interactions with the planetary systems. ...